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...first study to associate meal timing with degree of weight gain, sleep scientists at Northwestern University compared two groups of mice, each placed on opposite feeding schedules for a six-week period. Both groups were fed the same high-fat food, and both had the same amount of daily physical activity. The only difference: one group was fed during its normal 12-hour waking period, while the other rodents where fed while they should have been asleep. By the end of the study period, the latter group had gained more than twice as much weight as the mice that...
DIED French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, 24, who was ranked 119th in the world, had just begun a six-week suspension--for betting on matches in which he did not play--when he was found dead July 7 in Paris. The cause of death was not immediately known...
Peterson led a six-week campaign on behalf of Agriculture Committee Democrats and some fiscally conservative, so-called Blue Dog Democrats - a bloc of 45 votes - against two provisions in the bill. Ending a turf war, Waxman - whose committee has jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency - allowed the Agriculture Department, not the EPA, to oversee a potentially lucrative program to create technology to save energy for farmers (Peterson allowed that the Obama Administration could weigh in on the EPA's role in the issue, if any). And Waxman agreed to bar the EPA for five years from calculating how much...
Meanwhile, the journalism school at the University of Missouri has started introducing graduate-level journalism students to programming with computer-assisted reporting that delves into the basics of database management. Similarly, the University of California, Berkeley, requires students in its graduate school of journalism to take a six-week, boot camp-style course in Web development, during which they are taught the basics of XML, HTML and other coding languages commonly used on websites today...
...bikes at 20 different stations. The government ultimately hopes to install 120 stations around the city. In crowded Taipei, notorious for its streets clogged with aggressive drivers, bike rentals have been limited to its newest - and safest - business district, Hsinyi, where 500 bikes were stationed during a recent six-week trial period. During that time, 20,000 users in the zone rode for free. (See the top 10 green stories...