Researchers find flawed fat genes
Three overweight individuals including two children show genetic defects linked to obesity. An 8-year-old girl weighing 190 pounds and a 2-year-old cousin at 64 pounds have mutations in the leptin gene reducing leptin. A moderately overweight middle-aged woman has a defect in a separate gene for an enzyme. Findings reported in Nature and Nature Genetics.
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Public electric street lighting contract in Richmond Kansas
Ordinance 272 approves a ten year public electric street lighting contract with Kansas City Power and Light Company to furnish and maintain municipal lighting, with rates and conditions per company rules, starting June 13, 1907, and funded by annual appropriations. The agreement is executed by City officials and KCPL representatives.
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Air Force report links Roswell alien bodies to test dummies
WASHINGTON reports suggest a new Air Force document will state that the Roswell crash sighted aliens in 1947 were actually mistaken recollections of dummies used in high altitude parachute drops in the 1950s. UFO skeptics Philip Klass and Karl Pflock comment on the expected conclusions and dissenting views.
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