Word: barbarae
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...BARBARA BOXER Senator loses battle to air Bob Packwood's laundry in public...
...nearly party-line split, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to back the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee not to hold public hearings in the sexual and official misconduct case of Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood. Democrat Barbara Boxer, who had pushed for open hearings, called the decision "a miscarriage of justice." At week's end the committee announced that two more complaints of sexual misconduct had surfaced against Packwood and that it would investigate the new charges...
...that Friedman and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York City's Rockefeller University had discovered a magical potion that melts fat in a matter of weeks--resonated with unusual force. Momentarily, at least, it buoyed the spirits of millions of such lifelong dieters as Barbara Cady, a former teacher from Fairmont, West Virginia, and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. For if Cady, who has struggled to bring her weight down from 264 lbs. to 195, is any example, the market...
What, if anything, does this have to do with people? Perhaps a good deal. For humans have an ob gene that is virtually identical to the mouse gene, and it is possible that at least some folks have trouble keeping off pounds because of a mutation in this gene. Barbara Cady, for one, welcomes the notion that she and others become fat not because they lack willpower or moral character but because they have a biochemical abnormality. "I'm not lazy or unintelligent," she says. "I do as many of the right things as slimmer people. But something's going...
...that is the best news Barbara Cady could hope for. "I don't expect that this is going to be a panacea and that we'll all live happily ever after on hot-fudge sundaes," she says. "I don't think anyone who is overweight expects that. All we want is some help with a frustrating condition." After years of guilty eating and self-recrimination, it looks as though help for Cady, and for more than 50 million other seriously overweight Americans, may finally...