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The big breakthrough in understanding obesity came in 1994, when experiments on lab mice revealed that the hormone leptin controls the setpoint by controlling satiety.
The NYT , LAT , and WP each report that new studies of the breakthrough triple therapies for AIDS indicate that the regimen doesn't eliminate HIV, but tends to make it dormant, which means that the therapies should be continued even when patients are completely asymptomatic.
A story describes the breakthrough period of Muhammad Ali.
With less than one week to go before British Prime Minister Tony Blair's "firm" June 30 deadline for a breakthrough on last year's stalled "Good Friday Agreement" on Northern Ireland power-sharing, newspapers in Britain and Ireland are showing concern.
Zhu, too, is judged harshly, since most of his social reform pledges have remained unfulfilled, but the economy is on an upswing, and the "WTO breakthrough" is a boost to his hopes.