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...want to continue punishing students for a situation that is not their fault," he said. "I've had to adjust my grades upward over the years, and the strain on my conscience has become too great...
...were many, many groups sent for training," he relates. "So if the police say there are 200 more KMM members out there I think they must mean only the leaders." Rahman advises that the world take the terrorists of Southeast Asia seriously. "They will not hesitate," he says, the strain of being on the run vibrating in his voice, "to kill or be killed for Islam...
...giant of Napa Valley focused on the South of France in the early '90s, when a mutant strain of phylloxera grub was eating its way through California's vineyards. Mondavi looked abroad to satisfy U.S. consumer demand for wine, which was increasing 30% each year. The company found what it was looking for in the Languedoc, where grape growers were starting to market single-variety wines. The Languedoc was also a region that was abandoning bulk production in favor of high-quality winemaking. "If you look at the climate and the soils here, you've got every element you need...
...stopped eating so much food that is high in saturated fat. Public-health experts estimate that you can reduce your risk of heart disease as much as 80% by adopting a healthy lifestyle. But as long as our culture and our genes conspire to clog our arteries and strain our hearts, it's good to know that there will be some powerful drugs to help undo the damage...
...discovery of leptin in 1994 that got the genetic study of obesity rolling, and it was Friedman's research team that was responsible. Studying the genome of a rare strain of hugely obese mice, the investigators found that all of them shared a defect in a gene that coded for a previously unknown hormone released by body fat. When a normal animal gains too much weight, the hormone signals the brain to turn down the appetite rheostat. When fat stores drop, the hormone is shut off, causing appetite to rebound. In the gene-damaged mice, there was no leptin...