Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fonda. The movie star was everything that Sylvester, 42, wanted to be and wasn't: among other things, svelte and athletic. In fact, Sylvester's weight problem had become so severe that her physician recommended she have her stomach stapled. "I realized that if I didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal exercise guru...
...loss). Their programs are similar. Patients are put on so-called VLCDs -- very-low-calorie diets -- requiring them to forsake solid food and drink five packets a day of flavored powdered-food supplement containing a total of 400 to 800 calories. Dieters visit the program's doctor and a behavior-modification class once a week to have their health monitored and learn new eating habits. The average weight losses are dramatic: 3 lbs. a week for women and 5 lbs. for men. The fasting phase of the diet, which generally lasts from three to six months, is pricey: about...
...decided to break for New York City and a free-lance career. But he retained his academic title, and he never really stopped being professorial. As he sees it, the unexamined life is not worth loving: "The moons of Saturn, the Bard of Avon, the mysteries of sex, the behavior of ancient societies -- all have to be analyzed before they can be appreciated." Besides, Professor Asimov has a vision: "I believe that if there's such a thing as God's word, it's rationality, and I have the call to spread...
Conservative black scholar Robert Woodson argues that "people change their behavior in order to stay in Kenilworth-Parkside. It's a class-specific solution in which poor people help themselves." Woodson, whose National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise helps promote tenant management throughout the U.S., says that "the federal and state governments have spent nearly $1 trillion over the past 20 years in a largely failed effort to fight poverty. Now Kimi and others are taking it out of the hands of professionals and giving jobs to tenants...
According to a court document filed by the Commonwealth, the alleged molestations came to light after the children's parents began to notice "increasingly unusual changes" in their son's behavior. The parents, who are both physicians, placed the children in therapy, the statement said...