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...your daughter to accept her body, you have to accept your own, insists Linda Perlman Gordon, a co-author of Why Girls Talk--And What They're Really Saying. "You must believe that you are more than just a pretty face...
BEST PUNCH: "Can't we accept that devotion to the building of body politic is more complex and more sensitive than devotion to bodybuilding...
Better to accept the idea that weight control is a multifront battle, with exercise, diet, understanding physicians and patients willing to try new things all part of the campaign. "This fight is won by persistence," says Cheskin, "not extreme firepower." Longtime veterans of the weight- loss wars can certainly vouch for that. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Dallas, Melissa August/Washington, Amanda Bower/ New York, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Dan Cray/ Los Angeles, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Laura Locke/San Francisco
...worried that China is so eager to do deals that it will warp the market. Western oil majors are concerned that "they won't be able to compete," according to Gary Ross, CEO of Petroleum Industry Research Associates, because the Chinese companies, most still state owned, are "willing to accept a lower rate of return." Those concerns may be overwrought. To acquire Unocal, CNOOC (whose market capitalization is about $22 billion) would have to offer more than $17 billion, plus pay the $500 million breakup fee Chevron booby-trapped to its Unocal bid. "It's all about money," says...
...other words, the Sunnis coming in to the political process may shun Zarqawi, but they appear to accept Baathist-led guerrilla fighters killing U.S. soldiers as part of the Sunni mainstream. Fears of full-blown sectarian warfare between Shiites and Sunnis, meanwhile, have prompted urgent mediation efforts by, among others, the firebrand Shiite maverick Moqtada Sadr. Sadr appears to be using the opportunity to regain political traction against rivals in organizations such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the most influential party in the ruling coalition of prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. But Sadr...