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...third study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that leaner people tended to have more brown-fat deposits than overweight or obese individuals. Interestingly, women were twice as likely as men to have active brown fat, according to the study, conducted by Dr. Ronald Kahn and his colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...speak with the historic sweep of the California court, perhaps because the justices there know Iowa's court is less often seen as a harbinger of legal trends than California's. And in one important aspect the decision stopped short of following California's lead. In California, Chief Justice Ronald George declared that from now on, any laws that discriminate against gays in California are presumptively unconstitutional and will be subject to "strict-scrutiny" analysis by the courts - a burden that is reserved in every other state for cases involving discrimination against religion or immutable characteristics such as race...
...Born in the U.S.A., one of the best -selling albums of all time. With with over 15 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, the album remains the most successful in Columbia Records' history; 7 of its tracks became Top 10 singles. Released at the height of Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, the song "Born in the USA" itself was widely seen as a jingoistic anthem, despite lyrics expressing anger and frustration over the treatment of Vietnam veterans...
...Soviet Union with the other Allied leaders, and the end result was the partition of Germany and the creation of the United Nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fulfilling a campaign promise, traveled to Korea as President-Elect in December 1952 - the Korean War ended seven months later. And, of course, Ronald Reagan helped bring the Cold War to a close when he gave his 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall...
...brainchild of "Third Way" pioneers of the 1990s, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, both of whom had sought to govern by marrying some of the social concerns of the traditional social-democratic left with the market-oriented economic growth strategies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Today, a similar outlook is shared by the moderate leftist parties that govern in Latin America's biggest economies, such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And the current global economic crisis would appear to be an auspicious moment for political leaders whose central message has always been...