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Atkins Nutritionals, which has parlayed the low-carb concept into a food business with annual revenues of more than $100 million, countered by sending USA Today a hospital record showing that Atkins weighed 195 lbs. when he was admitted in April, a detail that is supported by photographs of Atkins taken in the weeks before his mishap. While he was on life support, the Atkins camp claimed, he retained fluids that caused him to balloon 63 lbs. "He became essentially unrecognizable, he was so bloated," said Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council. That IV, it turns...
...links to an age-old immunological defense mechanism called inflammation - the same biological process that turns the tissue around a splinter red and causes swelling in an injured toe. If they are right - and the evidence is starting to look pretty good - it could radically change doctors' concept of what makes us sick. It could also prove a bonanza to pharmaceutical companies looking for new ways to keep us well...
...This concept is so intriguing because it suggests a new and possibly much simpler way of warding off disease. Instead of different treatments for, say, heart disease, Alzheimer's and colon cancer, there might be a single, inflammation-reducing remedy that would prevent all three...
...Greene published his first book, The Elegant Universe, for which he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The book presented the idea of string theory, a concept that is gaining more credibility among the scientific community as a potential form of the Unification theory for which Einstein searched in his later years. String theory proposes that all matter is made up of infinitesimally small strings and what they form depends on their vibration, which moves like the vibration of a violin string...
...sing or play guitar very well. But poetic lyricism is absent on We Shall—the ultimate tragedy of the album. Darnielle’s poetry suffers from a lack of any coherence; it’s unclear by the end whether this is supposed to be a concept album or not. Some images recur (cargo ships in a harbor, broken electrical equipment, unearthed specters) but add up to nothing. Darnielle’s Homeric similes of albums past are gone, and the only extended metaphor—“I am a mole,” from...