Scientists inch toward obesity drug target receptor
Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Hoffmann La Roche report in Cell that a brain receptor for leptin may be the key to overcoming obesity. Obese individuals show high leptin levels, suggesting receptor pathway resistance. Researchers locate the receptor in the choroid plexus and hypothalamus as efforts to bypass resistance begin. Americans spend $33 billion yearly on weight loss.
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Coroner releases shootout theory in fatal Atlanta shooting
In Atlanta, coroner findings dispute witnesses who said a plainclothes officer shot 23-year-old Jerry Jackson as he crawled on the sidewalk after a gun battle at Moto Cycles. Police say Jackson was hit by ricochets during the mistaken burglary intervention. an officer fired from 10 to 15 feet away.
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Co workers charged in attempted IRS bombing
Reno Nev officials say Joseph Bailie 40 and Ellis Hurst 52 planned to detonate a bomb at the Internal Revenue Service building in Reno. The device packed with ammonium nitrate fuel oil was found Dec 18 after an attempted detonation the previous day left investigators unsure of casualties. Bailie bragged about tax evasion and both men faced potential decades in prison.
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First court ordered e mail surveillance nets international phone cloning ring
Three people including Bernhard Bowitz and his wife Rachel Bowitz and Grego Brooks were arrested in New York as part of an international phone cloning and money laundering operation. Investigators posed as cartel members, met Bowitz in hotels in Hong Kong Las Vegas and New York, and Bowitz allegedly sold over 30 phone devices and laundered about 225000 dollars. The case marked the first use of court ordered surveillance of a private e mail account.
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