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...constantly shifting calorie levels, Katahn explains, ease eater boredom and, more important, prevent the body from significantly slowing the rate at which it burns calories, the stumbling block in most diets. Other diet experts endorse the tactic but think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed...
...properly luminous finale for a man whose energy could light a city block. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Cagney was the son of a hard- drinking bartender who was frequently absent from home. He was raised mostly by a strong mother who could cheer him on in a barefisted street brawl but stood resolutely in his way when he toyed with the idea of a professional fight career. She made no objections, however, when Cagney fast-talked his way into a $35-a-week vaudeville dancing job when...
Richard Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block, Inc., which will prepare one of every ten 1985 U.S. tax returns, on how it feels to survive an IRS audit without owing money: "It's like taking a bath. You feel good. You feel clean. You've got another year behind...
BOSTON--Boston University officials yesterday said they would dedicate a new, $100 million science and engineering center, a four-block-long complex of new and renovated buildings...
Federal revenue sharing is expected to decrease by 67 percent to $500,000 and Community Development Block Grant funds are expected to decrease by 28 percent or almost $1 million...