Word: extras
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...fashioned one--take in less than you burn off. If, for example, you've gained only 2 lbs., you can start by cutting out 250 calories a day--or three cookies. Since losing a pound requires eating 3,500 fewer calories, in about a month your extra 2 lbs. should be gone. Keep them off with a sensible diet, rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grain. And don't forget to exercise. As for me, I'll be working on an extra 6 lbs.--and that's a lot of cookies to resist...
...been tied to tracts of neural real estate. Using fMRI, a new scanning technique that measures blood flow, scientists can tell whether the owner of the brain is imagining a face or a place. They can knock out a gene and prevent a mouse from learning, or insert extra copies and make it learn better. They can see the shrunken wrinkles that let a murderer kill without conscience, and the overgrown folds that let an Einstein deduce the secrets of the universe...
...Some say that subjective experience is unobservable and not a proper topic for science. Some say that once we can distinguish conscious brain processes from unconscious ones and show how they interact to cause behavior, there is nothing left to explain, and that people who are looking for some extra ingredient are just confused. Some concede that sentience is still a mystery but expect that an unborn genius will someday explain it to us. Still others suspect that the brain did not evolve to grasp the answer, any more than it can visualize what came before the Big Bang...
...part because the jury is still out on whether the expansion or gravity will triumph in the end. Most observations point toward the former, but many uncertainties persist. One is the galling "dark matter" issue. Studies of how galaxies are moving around indicate that there's lots of extra gravity out there, suggesting that the stars and nebulae we can see constitute only 1% to 10% of the matter in the universe. The rest is invisible; it emits no light. Nobody yet knows what this dark matter is. One possibility is that it's made of WIMP--weakly interacting massive...
...runaway inflation with his tough policies, his authoritarian streak and the poor performance of his country's economy has alienated many voters. But Fujimori made it clear three years ago that he had no intention of handing over power when he passed a law entitling him to the extra term on the basis that the constitution he rewrote in 1992 came into effect only after his initial election - and had congress dismiss three constitutional court judges who challenged this interpretation. "His critics also say that in order to be reelected, he's put the brakes on economic reforms and veered...