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...says she has two role models: Cory Aquino and her father. As for the latter, she is quick to note that during his days in the presidential palace, from 1961-65, the Philippines was Asia's star economic performer after Japan. Surprisingly, the mother of three is a relatively unknown figure across the nation, far less understood and loved than Aquino at the conclusion of the first People Power, despite her political pedigree and a stunning success in the 1998 vice presidential election. (In the Philippine system, voters choose presidents and vice presidents separately, and Arroyo got more votes than...
Fresh from winter break, I was actually ready for the onslaught. I was prepared for a siege, ready to lay waste to the mountains of unknown material threatening to undo me. My keep was filled with an abundance of preserves, primarily Christmas cookies from mom, and my will to defend the coveted GPA could be no higher. I was primed for battle...
...only other remotely similar case, another British child murderer, Mary Bell, was granted anonymity in 1984--but only to protect her infant daughter. To date, Bell's whereabouts remain unknown, and she has not returned to her old ways. She did, however, receive an undisclosed sum for a book on her life story...
...wants to be forced into a cookie-cutter genre (college rock or classic rock or oldies) and asked to love everything in it? On the other hand, it must also be at least a year since I've had the thrill of discovering a toe-tapping tune from an unknown artist completely by accident. This is what happens when you enter the world of Napster and MP3s. You tend to play it safe, downloading artists you know or songs you remember from childhood. It eventually gets stale...
...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 at all, causing them...