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The mechanism linking short sleep with weight gain is unknown, but Mignot and colleagues' study in this month's PLoS Medicine [3] adds to the growing evidence implicating leptin and ghrelin, the two key opposing hormones involved in appetite regulation.
Soon he was a dissident professor, and he served a term in prison in the early '70s for opposing Tito's dictatorship.
The story says that as a Knick, he routinely held on to an opposing player's shorts and even garners a quote from the man 26 years later: "He was one of the dirtiest players I ever played against."
So many seemingly contrary and opposing factors combine to make it unique.
Does any editorial page so clearly reflect that belief as USA Today 's, with its regular "Opposing Opinion" and cross section of positions?