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...study of 775 undergraduates, reported in Friday's Gazette, also found that nearly half of the female respondents were chronic dieters...
...historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...
...Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped...
...raise the $30 billion to $90 billion that universal coverage will cost, but politically unpopular levies on basic company-paid medical benefits seem unlikely. Insurance companies will no longer be free to deny policies to "high-risk" groups, a practice that has made it difficult for people with chronic illnesses to get coverage...
...controversy is an unusually spectacular example of a larger dirty secret of all of today's entertainment businesses: with the same powerful agents and lawyers regularly representing performers and producers and executives on all sides of the negotiating table, real and potential conflicts of interest are chronic and rampant -- so much so that the wheeler-dealers have a hard time taking outsiders' ethical qualms seriously. "The only way to avoid the appearance of potential conflict of interest in this business," says CAA's & president, Ron Meyer, "is to represent only one client. And then, of course, you'd have...