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Since its discovery about six years ago, GLP-1 has been studied for its effectiveness in treating patients who suffer from adeposegenic diabetes. Such patients experience an insatiable hunger that researchers hope to curb with GLP-1 treatments...

Author: By Imran S. Javaid, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Prof. to Further Weight Loss Study | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

CHICAGO: The government may be trying to curb the flow of weapons of war into the hands of criminals, but a Chicago Tribune expose has found that an officially sanctioned program may be inadvertently supplying large numbers of infantry rifles to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Shopping for War | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Maybe the pharmaceutical companies should turn their attention to finding a drug that could help curb the insatiable urge to breed. ROBERT K. GRONENDYKE Rohnert Park, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...moguls are doing too well to worry. Mike Curb--the Californian who, in another life, produced hits by the Four Seasons, the Osmonds and Debby Boone (her version of You Light Up My Life was the '70s' top-selling single) and, from 1978 to 1982, served as Lieutenant Governor of California--has struck country gold on his Curb label with Tim McGraw (Indian Outlaw) and ridden Rimes to multiplatinum. Curb sees the payoff beyond the pain: "If a record is different, it's going to be harder to get it played. But you get a bigger return when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN GARTH SAVE COUNTRY? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...secret of LeAnn's success is three words: volume (a big voice), volume (three albums in 18 months), volume (saturation marketing by Curb). The new CD--12 songs of inspiration, from The Rose to God Bless America--rarely unleashes Rimes' gloriously freaky soprano; at times she sounds intimidated, like a child called on to sing before stern church elders. Only in an a cappella National Anthem does she let loose the trills and glissandi; but, really, is that a cut you'll want to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN GARTH SAVE COUNTRY? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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