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...important question is, how can a metabolic signal or a nutrient trigger an immune response?” said Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, chair of the HSPH Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and principal investigator for the study, which was published in the journal Cell...
...prep school in dangerous, dirty 1970s New York. For the many of us who’d identified with Holden in our adolescence, it compounded our horror to learn that John Lennon’s murderer carried a copy of the novel in his pocket when he pulled the trigger and imagined himself as the Holden who lived past the last page. Last week my nephew, a college freshman, posted “RIP Holden Caulfield” on his Facebook page. But Holden will survive his creator. He’ll be just fine...
...their life outside the law constantly threatens to erupt in violent conflagrations. The smugglers who run the show are gun-toting, trigger-happy cowboys of the desert, subverting police checkpoints through roadless sand dunes and hills in an army of Land Cruisers with no license plates and tinted windows. They carry Glock pistols, AK-47s and even a few M-16s. "I'm a wanted man. We're all wanted men, and we're all armed," says Abdullah, a tunnel owner who sleeps in a different place every night and says he would rather die than be captured...
...collapse of Enron should have been a trigger to those involved in business in America, the American government, and the American populace that there ought to be fundamental changes in the general practices of American industries, such as how liabilities and assets are calculated. It wasn’t—and those who have benefited from the Enron-led train of unscrupulous practices of the market—such as short-selling, betting against the market or hoping it will fail so that you can make money selling for high to buy at very low. or profiting from...
...that Beth, having seen Nick with another woman at the wedding reception, gets squiffed and wanders outside to a Fontana de Amore, where local legend instructs visitors to wish for love by throwing a coin in the water. Graybeards will recall Rome's Fountain of Trevi as the romantic trigger for the plot of the 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain; Hilary Duff honored the tradition in The Lizzie McGuire Movie back in 2003. When in Rome invents a corollary legend: that if you remove a coin from the fountain, the person who put it there will instantly and passionately...