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Children whose mothers smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day while pregnant are more susceptible to nicotine addiction, according to a study by a Harvard scientist...
...scientist who can figure out why Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant will probably be a candidate for a Nobel Prize. It's not a simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over...
...many well-known art museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it was first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Madrid as a genuine scientific catalog. With no posted indication that this exhibit was the work of an artist rather than a scientist, the public, as well as many of the museum curators, were easily deceived by this artistic ruse...
...White House and the one that tested what voters think of his presidency--ticket splitting reached its lowest level in 30 years, according to a study by David Kimball of the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Some suggest this will only get more pronounced. Laura Stoker, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that as more young voters who grew up during the culture wars that raged from the '60s through the '80s start going to the polls, they will be even more strongly polarized than their parents...
...operator from the government.) Just 10 days before Mahathir resigned in October, a consortium led by Syed Mokhtar was awarded a $3.8 billion contract to build a railroad from the Thai border to Singapore. Abdullah now says negotiations were not completed. Edmund Terence Gomez, a political scientist at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, says that with a general election probably only months away, Abdullah "will look good in showing that he is against the appearances of cronyism...