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...Thai immigrant friends and family members of the two men—are about to open a new restaurant called Shabu Square, which will come to 97 Winthrop Street in the middle of next month. The restaurant will feature “shabu-shabu,” a variant of hot pot that has been popularized in the Boston area in recent months. Shabu-shabu is cooked by dipping raw ingredients, primarily vegetables and thinly sliced beef, into a simmering metal pot of stock placed at the center of each table. Having first met in 1990 at Montien?...
...that reflected the makeup of the general Caucasian population: Specifically, they exhibited a range of variations on the FTO gene, which previous studies have associated with obesity and high body mass index, or BMI. Experts say about half of all people of European descent possess at least one "heavy" variant of the FTO gene. Within the Amish study group, some volunteers had two copies of a fattening variant; these people were 67% more likely to be obese and were on average 7 lbs. heavier than people without any copies of this form of the gene...
...researchers also discovered a subgroup of volunteers who had two copies of the heavy FTO variant, but still managed to avoid being fat. Their simple trick? Exercise. Rampersaud found that the most physically active men and women in the study were able to stay within a normal BMI range, despite their genetic predisposition; other people with the same gene variants, who were relatively inactive, were overweight. "This is the first time that we can show the direct gene-environment interaction for a gene related to obesity," Rampersaud says. "It re-emphasizes the role that physical activity plays in our daily...
...Those adept at free running - a variant of parkour, born in the Paris suburbs a decade or so ago - are usually more at home outdoors, scaling walls and leaping roof tops in cities around the world. But as the pastime has taken off - showcased in movies from Bond to The Bourne Ultimatum, free running practitioners now number 15,000 in the U.K. alone - it was time to move indoors to compete...
...part, insists that he is advocating only for minor changes. "I'm not saying to people who have actually gone to all the trouble to learn all the exceptions to the rule that they should unlearn it. I'm just saying, let's have a few more variant spellings," he says. And if that doesn't catch on, he has another idea. "In the 21st century, why learn by heart rote spelling when you can just type it into a computer and spell-check?" he asks...