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Because leptin is produced in fat tissue, the fatter an animal is, the more leptin its cells should make. Normal mice then respond to weight gain by turning out more leptin. As a result, their appetites slacken and their energy consumption speeds up. But the obese mice cannot produce leptin, so their brains never receive this vital message. "These animals," marvels Friedman, "get fat because they think they're starving, and then when we give them the protein, they get thin because they think they...
...signal as well that the U.S. economy may be starting to slacken after one of its most vigorous years in a decade. Packaging may be unglamorous, but it's a business many economists track as a harbinger of the future. When companies see unsold tables, toys and toasters piling up on their shelves, one of the first things they do is quietly cancel orders for packaging material. But the accelerating pace of such cutbacks in January could not be reflected in the backward-looking data released so far this year, including last week's report that the economy expanded...
Both steps could be justified in the absence of any hostage negotiations if Iran, in return, would slacken its intense hostility to the West. At best, the release of the hostages could be presented as an almost incidental part of a general Washington-Tehran rapprochement or even as a major concession by the Iranians, agreed to as the inescapable price of smoother relations with the West...
...female Vice-Presidential candidate is encouraging although their hypocritical optimism and enthusiasm about the prospect is not. NOW members, and all feminist activists, should continue to pressure politicians to enact feminist legislations; they should not allow false hopes to be raised which would cause NOW members to slacken their efforts. The idea of a woman in the White House, even in the second position, is not unthinkable: only the perception of that possibility is still prohibitive. And that perception, as we saw this week, is changing, and capable of being changed much more...
...situation prevails in the Middle East, and some of my peers in ROTC were actually there. The fundamental questions of our involvement in Lebanon--why we are there in the first place, how long the Marines will remain ashore, and most important, whether our military effort will intensify or slacken--are still a matter of heated public debate. Numerous faults can be found on the diplomatic level as well. As far as strictly military maneuvers are concerned, however, the United States has so far shown admirable restraint and careful execution. The Marines are clearly still in a defensive and policing...