Word: bypassing
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...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, the University of Arizona and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona report a very small study of nine individuals - three of normal weight, three who were morbidly obese and three who underwent gastric-bypass surgery. The team found that each group harbored a different intestinal zoo of microbes and that following their surgery, the gastric-bypass patients' gut bugs ended up looking much more similar to those of the normal-weight patients. (See the Year in Health, from...
...simply stopping its operation without a formal truce, Israel can claim to have re-established its "deterrent" on future rocket fire without "recognizing" Hamas' authority in Gaza. This option would allow Israel to avoid accepting any new restraints on its actions in Gaza. It would also bypass the need to deploy international forces, a move that would complicate any future offensive. Israel ended its 2002 offensive against militants in Jenin and other West Bank cities on its own terms, choosing where to remain deployed and continuing to raid those cities as deemed necessary. The six-month truce that maintained calm...
Winnie-the-Pooh, the sequel: Tigger on Ritalin, Eeyore on Prozac, Pooh gets gastric-bypass surgery...
Unlike the Bushies, the Obama folks bypass the press with a smile, not a sneer. But the notion that a new Administration has to "feed the beast" in the pressroom may no longer be true. Politically, Bush didn't much suffer from writing off the "reality based" media. (Historically, maybe; hence his last-minute media barnstorming of late...
...assembly, 51 to 29. (There is one vacancy in the senate.) With such deep cuts on the line, Republicans and Democrats have squared off, arguing whether raising taxes or reducing welfare programs is the best way to go. In December the Democrats engineered a plan that could bypass the Republican vote and, with a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on sales, gas and income, melt the deficit by $18 billion. However, this week Schwarzenegger rejected the plan, saying his demands, like limiting environmental protections on public-works construction, were not met, and the Republicans filed a suit...