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...bloodstream. "There are at least half a dozen signals that we know about," says Michael Cowley, a neuroscientist at the Oregon National Primate Center in Beaverton and one of the co-authors of the Nature paper. Some of these biological traffic lights work in a very short time frame, affecting when you start and stop a meal. Some, like leptin, work over the longer term by helping the brain monitor how much fatty tissue the body has stored. PYY is a medium-term signal; it seems to suppress your appetite between meals, presumably so you can get some work done...
...experts The favorite for its lightweight frame, ease of maneuvering and, most of all, superspeed...
...Behind the camera, however, some of the performances are a letdown. Director Pau, who won an Oscar for cinematography in Crouching Tiger, can frame a gorgeous scene, but has trouble keeping his story moving. He is not helped by Philip Kwok's jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look...
Peckish? Walk south a block to the Chinese Quarter where large, red gates frame the entrances to a district of hole-in-the-wall noodle shops ($3 noodles-the cheapest in the city!). The Chinese rushed into the country when Japan, fearing the spread of Christianity, closed its doors to Westerners. Along with the Dutch whose trade-focused Protestants were considered less threatening than Portugal's Catholic missionaries, the Chinese did business with the rest of the country through Nagasaki's port, though both groups were sequestered in one area of town. Nagasaki's traditional dish-a soup of thick...
...When he finds a production that does not employ junior artists, he works the phones, calling a threatening mob to the set. Ahmed, a burly 39-year-old, heckles producers, demanding a token quota of junior artists, even if it means the extras are "left outside the frame." Most producers comply, or just pay up, to get rid of him. Ahmed admits he has resorted to violence, but says he has no choice. "People say we are quarrelsome and abusive," he says. "But what can we do? We are fighting for our food, our children's futures...