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Cummings is less sure of the third conclusion, that bypass patients have only a quarter as much ghrelin as most people of normal weight. "It was based on only five people," he says, "and it's quite possible that had we studied a sixth, he would not show that." Still, the conclusion makes sense on its face. Ghrelin is produced mostly by cells in the stomach; if large parts of that organ are cut off from the rest of the digestive system, they may well stop churning out the hormone...
...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] This camera gives you three settings: "normal" (standard quality), "fine" and "superfine" (superhigh quality...
...Class whose senior year ended with such tumult, the beginning of the Class of 1952 was unusually normal...
...October 1951, Conant joined the presidents of Princeton and Yale in agreeing on new athletic recruiting policies. The schools would no longer admit students who did not meet normal academic standards, and no athletic scholarships would be given...
...grand, wrenching national canvas. After the award ceremony, the critics massed in righteous annoyance that a film as conventional (though artfully, powerfully made) as Polanski's could win the Palme d'Or, when their favorites were slighted. This kerfuffle was silly but sweet: Cannes was finally back to normal...