US FINANCIAL CRISIS

‘The World As We Know It Is Going Down’

By Marc Pitzke in New York

Courtesy and Thanks: Spiegel Online International

Panic is the word of the hour on Wall Street. Now even Morgan Stanley is fighting for survival. The commercial bank Wachovia and China‘s Bank Citic are being discussed as possible rescuers. The crisis has led President Bush to cancel a trip.

Science: Researchers suppress hunger hormone

Scientists say they have found a way to physically stop the stomach from making the hormone that tells the brain, “you’re hungry,” aat least in pigs’… the part of the stomach where 90% of the body’s supply of ghrelin, the “hunger hormone,” is produced. The process supresses the hormones… Courtesy and Thanks: Daily National Post, Sept. 17, 2008, page A6