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...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 before you start eating again. What complicates things is that these signals are interconnected; if the level of one hormone falls or rises long enough, the whole system will shift until the hormones fall...
BERGSTROM: In a medium-risk strategy, we had 15% inflation-index bonds, 5% high-quality fixed-income bonds, about 15% in high-yield bonds. We had about 30% in developed-market, non-U.S. equities, about 10% in U.S. equities, 12% in emerging-markets equities and about 12% in real estate-related investments...
...medium of animation allows for imaginative freedom from reality. Aladdin elicits the help of a genie and a magic carpet to outwit murderous mud monsters. A young Hercules battles giant spiders and multiple-headed lions. Kim takes down colossal robots and magma guns...
...which did things you could also do on the Internet and mostly did them poorly, picture messaging is genuinely new and seems to work well. But the more important point is that for the first time, it's possible to see cell phones as a really visual medium. The novelty value of being able to take a picture of yourself and send it to your grandmother via e-mail might wear off quickly. But the wireless operators aren't really out to turn people onto photography. They want to get us used to the idea of downloading, swapping, and paying...
...forms, including comix, have their avant-garde, places where the rules and traditions are bent or left behind in exploring the possibilities of the medium. These journeys often leave most of the audience behind, but occasionally an artist brings us along and comes up with just the right amount of edginess and entertainment. Two new books, one from the U.S. and one from the Netherlands, succeed in this...