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Researchers in St. Louis, Mo., and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. That's twice as much fat as is usually removed. The women were instructed not to diet or exercise more until the experiment was over. All reported that they felt better and could move more easily after surgery. But with respect to their metabolic risk factors, Klein says...
...giving off heat, also tends to diminish with age and with getting out of shape. "Basically, the elderly are vulnerable to heat both because they have greater difficulty in regulating their core temperature and because increased prevalence of diseases and medicines impair the ability to dissipate heat," says Dr. Samuel Durso, associate professor of geriatrics at Johns Hopkins. "The two in combination can be deadly." (See box.) What's more, older people generally don't feel thirsty until they're already dehydrated. (The exact reason isn't known...
...found that—contrary to many of the arguments made by Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington in his recent work, Who Are We?—these undocumented immigrants developed a type of citizenship not described by their legal status by becoming active members in their communities...
...ideal academic on practical life of politics,” said Samuel Beer, the Eaton professor of the science of government emeritus. “He had the right balance and right mind...
...packaging in the Thai language-Thai products are respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce it in one or two weeks," says Samuel Porteous, managing director for greater China at Kroll, an international risk consultancy...