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...this medication to our weight-management program. We anticipated the use of Redux as an adjunct to our program long before the medication gained approval from an FDA advisory committee in 1995. When Redux became available to the public in July 1996, we immediately began testing a companion program for those clients who qualify and wish to utilize weight-loss medications. As noted in your article, this type of medication is not a magic remedy for obesity; however, such drugs can help people lose weight and keep it off if use of the drugs is combined with a reduced-calorie...
...Jackie was baptized, confirmed and mourned. Caroline's husband Edwin Schlossberg, Bessette's sister Lisa and her husband, Senator Kennedy and William Kennedy Smith (John stood by Smith during his rape trial) all read Scripture. Others attending included Victoria Reggie, the Senator's wife, and Maurice Tempelsman, Jackie's companion for many years. David Davis, a gospel singer from a nearby town in Florida, sang Amazing Grace and Will the Circle Be Unbroken a cappella...
...funding our first program--until one day, Judith Kidd called to say that the Bank of Boston would be City Year's first team sponsor for $25,000. On that day, City Year was born. For the next five years, Judith has served as mentor, adviser and constant companion to us and dozens of City Year corps members and staff...
Even the most casual readers of Philip Roth's fabulously inventive novels, those slyly tangled weavings of fiction and autobiography, can get some sense that the author might not make an ideal mate. An unforgettable lover, perhaps; a witty dinner companion, absolutely. But Roth, as Alexander Portnoy's psychoanalyst might put it, clearly has some "issues" about women...
...America's conquest of the West, from the early European explorers to the dawn of the 20th century. PBS is airing the series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much of the same appeal that drew record audiences (for PBS) to The Civil...