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...portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person gains weight, the hypothalamus decreasses appetite and speeds metabolism. However, the brain does not seem to work as hard to ward off weight gain as it does to combat weight loss; overeating can overload the system. Moreover, the discovery of an obesity gene suggests that many people inherit a tendency to maintain a set point that is too high...
Hardy himself seems to have viewed biographers as carrion feeders, and he labored mightily to ward them off. He did so manipulatively and obliquely -- by writing an autobiography that would appear as a biography under the name of his second wife Florence. Seymour-Smith can't quite acknowledge how characteristically -- and fascinatingly -- underhanded this step was. Things turned still more devious when Florence, after Hardy's death, reworked some passages to make his first wife Emma look more guileful and sly. What spy thriller could possibly top this for intricate ironies? Florence actually opened herself up to accusations of dishonesty...
...combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...
COPY DESK: Barbara Dudley Davis, Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Irene Gashurov, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
COPY DESK: Barbara Dudley Davis, Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Irene Gashurov, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...