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Bruce M. Spiegelman, professor of cell biology at HMS, joined researchers at University of Texas-Southwestern in publishing a study in the Aug. 15 issue of Nature demonstrating that the protein PGC-1 can supply certain muscles with the mitochondria that power their contractions...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Find New Way To Jump Start Tired Muscles | 10/1/2002 | See Source »

Rhonda Bassel-Duby, a molecular biologist at UT-Southwestern who collaborated on the study, said that the findings may have implications for invalid patients whose inactivity has led to muscle atrophy...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Find New Way To Jump Start Tired Muscles | 10/1/2002 | See Source »

...know how we're going to make it," the farmer says as he looks at some of his cows huddling under a bridge to escape the burning sun. Gillen, 66, has only 20 cows left from a herd of 450. After three years of drought in southwestern Colorado, Gillen's fields are parched, his irrigation water is spent, and he has been selling off land and livestock to cover debts. His banker keeps telling him that he should find some other line of work, that farming these days "is pretty grim." But after a lifetime of farming, Gillen says, "where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dust Bowl | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Even as the water disappears, newcomers to subdivisions in southwestern Montana are demanding their fair share of it. "As water gets short, tempers get shorter," says Loble. "To prevent anarchy on the streams, there needs to be a water cop." Thanks to Loble's careful oversight and the water court's new electronic measuring devices, which make sure that upstream users don't hog all the river flow, more people in Montana got water this year than in 1988. Sometimes, Loble says, just holding a meeting is all it takes to get two disputing parties to work together. And other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dust Bowl | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Maybe it won't go down as the defining moment in Chinese music history, but the two-day Snow Mountain Music Festival, which got rolling Aug. 17 on a picturesque mountainside in southwestern China, may have set the record for the highest-altitude outdoor rock concert. The thin air at 12,000 ft. had Beijing rocker boys taking oxygen hits onstage between songs. There may have been 100 times the crowd at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969, but China's Woodstock can boast at least one thing in common with its American counterpart: the mud. It had been raining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woodstock East Has Music and Lots of Mud | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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