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...media horde. "He loves the work of government but not the work of getting elected," says a former adviser. "The guy's an introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then you see him withdraw into himself, switch on the autopilot and plod along. And when that happens, his capacity for work is never diminished, but his capacity for joy--the light touch a politician needs--gets lost...
...SWITCH In the country's ongoing battle with blubber, researchers have discovered that a protein called Wnt-10b controls fat formation. Wnt-10b inhibited fat precursor cells in mice from becoming full-fledged fat, while, remarkably, cutting off Wnt-10b turned even premuscle cells into flab. Humans also produce Wnt-10b, so further study into what regulates the protein may someday lead to the development of long-awaited antiobesity drugs...
With nearly $4 billion in venture capital being invested in networking start-ups this quarter, the concern is that too many companies are being hurled too quickly into the same markets. For instance, at least a dozen optical-switch makers have been launched in the past six months. (Remember the dozen pet-supply e-commerce companies that were started last year?) That doesn't faze Josef Straus, CEO of JDS Uniphase: "Last Supercom [an industry trade show], there were 40 new start-ups in networking. Why did they get funded? Because they had a good business proposition in a great...
...BPAD from mild depression to rapid cycling BPAD)? Must a critical threshold be reached for manifestation of the illness? Even if a person has all of the genes that code for a disorder might its expression be prevented or mitigated by protector genes (These genes manufacture factors that can switch off the genes that are doing the damage)? Genes of this type are already known to be important in the expression of BPAD, though how big a role they play is anyone's guess. Dwarves born in to families where BPAD is common rarely develop the disease, despite the challenges...
...trail switches back and forth, and though there may be hundreds of hikers on it, you are often alone, and you can peer over the edge at 2,000 or 3,000 ft. of rock face. And then, when you weary of geology, some folks come trudging along, and you get to switch to anthropology...