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...test for Barbara Dorsett, a Buford, Georgia, homemaker, came on a visit to the local Red Lobster last month. Dorsett, 50, had tried low-carbohydrate diets and the Scarsdale diet and plenty of other weight-loss schemes in an effort to shed the extra 100 lbs. she carried on her 5-ft. 9-in. frame. But the weight had always been hard to take off and had always come back. This time seemed different. In her first two months on her new regimen, Dorsett had dropped 40 lbs., and she swore she would lose 60 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MIRACLE DRUG? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...experts, is give obese patients a powerful head start on weight loss. Redux is revolutionary, explains author Levine, because "it overcomes the loss of confidence in one's own diet. The feeling that the drug gives you is the key." That's the attitude of Barbara Dorsett, the Red Lobster survivor: "I'm just so thankful they discovered this stuff," she says. "I felt so old and decrepit. It's like a new lease on life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MIRACLE DRUG? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...turned to exotic self-help works, including a text on ancient Egyptian philosophy. "I slowly realized I was living a lie," he says. "The respect I cared so much about was based on intimidation, not self-respect. I had been involved in madness." Interviewed in 1993 by author Barbara Cottman Becnel for a history of the Crips and Bloods, Williams asked a favor in return. Becnel carried a videotaped speech by Williams condemning violence to a 1993 gang "summit" in Los Angeles. The audience responded with a standing ovation. Next, Williams told Becnel he wished to write children's books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LESSONS LEARNED ON DEATH ROW | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...Barbara J. Nelson will step down from her post to assume a deanship at the University of California at Los Angeles on November 1, according to Florence C. Ladd, director of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Radcliffe Vice President Will Resign From Post | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...National Enquirer alleges that Morris had a "second wife," Barbara Jean Pfafflin of Austin, Texas, with whom he had a 13-year relationship and a six-year-old daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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