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...There's comfort here for some people that their overeating is not a lack of willpower." RICHARD SIMERLY, researcher at Oregon Health and Science University in the U.S., on findings that obese people's brains might be "hardwired" at birth to tell the body to eat too much
...incremental approach seems to be working for foes of abortion. Following passage last October of a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have...
...choice groups are pushing for a law that would ensure the privacy of medical records at abortion clinics. The Justice Department demanded in February (before backing off) that half a dozen such clinics turn over patients' medical records so they could be used to defend the new partial-birth abortion law from a suit filed by a group of doctors. Still, for pro-choice groups, the logical next step is a big one: to mobilize their members behind John Kerry, who, if elected, would appoint Supreme Court Justices committed to upholding Roe v. Wade...
Olivia Lum, head of the fast-growing water-treatment company Hyflux, never knew her biological parents. She was adopted at birth by an elderly woman she called Grandma, and home was Kampar, a poor Malaysian mining town where an exodus of jobs had left most residents with no income. After Grandma sold her house to pay some gambling debts, Lum was brought up in a wooden shack without running water--unless you counted the rainwater that would regularly seep in and flood the floors. To keep Grandma's spirits up, Lum used to say that when she made...
...created a funky, all-suite hotel and spa - with its own herb garden, so the menu can boast fresh pesto Genovese despite the tropical setting. It attracts an eclectic bunch of guests who keep coming back - a bit like the turtles, which always return to the beach of their birth even after sea voyages that take them half way across the world. E-mail: info@mtplaisir.com ; tel: (868) 670 8381/2217