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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...
...from film to digital. This transition, perhaps a significant one in light of the exhibition’s title, is nevertheless completely glossed over therein. “From Film to Digital” features a selection of 26 of Steiner’s prints spanning four decades and six continents. But these photos are explained only by printout labels with little more information than the title of the piece and the location of the shot, leaving a void where one might expect to find some rationale for featuring these works under this heading. Sprawling landscapes and faces from across...
Miss Universe pageant • choreographer for reveals that Donald Trump picked six of the finalists in because "he left it all up to preliminary judging in the past and some of the most beautiful women, in his opinion, were not in the top 15, and he was kind of upset about that...
...Still, one would think that the mere infusion of $88 billion into the economy in six months - that's how much the government has spent so far - would buy Obama some goodwill; certainly many local and state politicians, including some who originally opposed the stimulus, have been quick to claim credit for stabilizing their economies with the federal largesse. Except, as it turns out, the very thing that makes the stimulus help the economy in the short term is a political loser: the program is giving most of its money to the poor. Of that $88 billion, the majority...
...Europe's last closed frontiers may finally be reopening, marking the end of almost a century of animosity between the two countries that stems from the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish army. On Sept. 1, the two countries launched six weeks of negotiations aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations. The goal is for both parliaments to ratify a deal by Oct. 14. The border could then reopen by the end of the year. (See pictures of the streets of Istanbul...