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...discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces of brown fat tissue, if fully activated, could burn an estimated of 20 percent of daily calories, according to C. Ronald Kahn, one of the lead investigators and a professor at HMS. “It doesn’t take very much for brown...
...zombies, with blood splattered all over their ragged clothing and faces painted pasty white, lurched forward with their arms outstretched, while zombie hunters who survived the zombie apocalypse gripped toy guns to ward off potential threats to their grasps on life. One female zombie gnawed at a bloody heart. One protester held a sign that read "Easter is for candy, not for zombies"—but the individual was inevitably drawn into the masses, soon staggering forward as yet another soulless human shell...
While much of the country spends the day after Easter sweeping up plastic grass and nursing a Peeps overdose, the White House welcomes an invasion of children. Thousands of young people will stream onto the South Lawn this Easter Monday for the White House Easter Egg Roll, one of the oldest presidential traditions and the largest annual event held at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (See top 10 things you didn't know about Easter...
...grounds for Easter Egg rolling in the 19th century, but lawmakers grew so peeved at the damage to the grass that in 1876 they passed the Turf Protection Law banning the practice. Bad weather nixed egg rolling the following year, but in 1878 President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to the displaced youngsters and a tradition began. It has continued steadily ever since, interrupted only by inclement weather and hiatuses during World Wars...
...target for the pirates. The manifest lists a cargo of missiles and bombs with a TNT equivalent or "net explosive weight" of 6,383,281 lbs - around a quarter of Hiroshima's A-bomb destructive power. It includes 11 containers holding 15,751 lbs of spontaneously flammable munitions like white phosphorous. In total around 80% of the cargo, or 1,300 containers, will be crammed with explosives. (See a brief history of pirates...