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...turn lean mice into starving wretches. After losing weight, researchers from Amgen reported, normal mice stabilize both their food intake and their metabolism. Obese mice likewise reach an optimal leanness, then stop losing weight. The pattern of weight loss is also encouraging. For unlike extreme calorie restriction, which can weaken muscle, leptin appears to dissolve fat while leaving lean tissue intact. On the basis of such data, Amgen (which paid Rockefeller University $20 million for patent rights to make products based on the ob gene) has announced that it hopes to begin conducting human trials as early as next year...
...allies have often been called pragmatists and their opponents hard-liners, but the labels do not convey the multitude of factions vying for power. "Only personal interests and family interests are priorities-for all of them," says a longtime diplomat. Though himself a mullah, Rafsanjani would like to weaken the clergy's grip on Iran's domestic affairs. But he lost control when a conservative, hostile parliament was voted in three years ago. "Rafsanjani is Iran's Gorbachev -- he wants to, but he can't," says the diplomat...
...focus on public policy initiatives that would benefit Blacks is because the Democratic party regularly receives 85 to 95 percent of the Black vote. But conservative politicians do not merely ignore Blacks--they steadily attack the progress Blacks have made. For example, Presidents Reagan and Bush sought to weaken civil rights statutes, dissolve the Civil Rights Commission and cut programs targeted for the inner cities...
Even renting out depository space at another institution and putting all displaced volumes in that depository would be preferable to complete inaccessibility. The current plan would weaken a library system that is the envy of the world. We owe it to our students and others who rely on this resource to keep it fully accessible...
...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...