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...juice, which is made from concentrate. In April, Kessler instructed his inspectors to publicly seize 2,000 cases of the juice. Two days and many headlines later, the company, based in Cincinnati, agreed to remove the term fresh from its label. Soon after, executives at Ragu Foods of Trumbull, Conn., consented to drop the offending word from their Ragu Fresh Italian pasta sauces, which, like many other prepared sauces, are heat processed. In May the FDA ordered that the "no-cholesterol" claim be removed from Best Foods' Mazola Corn Oil and HeartBeat Canola Oil, made by Great Foods of America...
Like many women, Nancy Cort longed to be the size she was at age 18 -- size 8, to be precise -- 28 years and dozens of pounds ago. The Westport, Conn., schoolteacher enrolled in a weight-loss program, dropped 35 lbs. and then, with just 15 lbs. more to go, decided to call a halt to her dieting. "I thought about what I could maintain, what I could be successful at," says Cort. "Sure, I'd like to be a size 8, but then I would have to exercise more." Her conclusion: "I'm content being a size...
...make a point of discussing improvements in health as well as decreasing girth. There are also lessons in realism. "We spend a lot of time working on the concept that managing this weight is going to be difficult," says Betsy Taylor of Health Extenders, a diet program in Norwalk, Conn. "Dieters realize how impossible it would be to keep those tiny bodies after losing 100 lbs., and they realize later on that a larger body may not be a model size, but it is a livable size...
...persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown from four to 18, straining the capacity of the two-story barn-wood building in Westport, Conn., that serves as a homey headquarters...
...achieve that goal, the researchers chose a vaccine, manufactured by MicroGeneSys of Meriden, Conn., that consists of genetically engineered pieces of the virus. The vaccine makers took strands of DNA that code for the outer covering of HIV and put them into another kind of virus, one that infects only moths and butterflies. The insect virus then produced AIDS proteins in addition...