Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mafia any less active in Italy, where organized crime has a hold on every major city. In Sicily, the old Mafia has infested every aspect of the island's life. Once known for its poverty, Sicily may now be addicted to a rich diet of drug money. Some Sicilians, in fact, wonder how anything will ever get done without the Mafia to navigate a hopelessly tangled bureaucracy. As a Palermo businessman said last week, "Our city administration is so bad that without the 'friends of friends,' how are we ever going to get anything accomplished? At least...
...scientists, putting the demands of native custom before those of scientific knowledge is a disturbing trend. Ancient bones often provide the sole link to prehistoric societies, giving evidence of diet, brain size, stature, disease and longevity. Should scientists be deprived of the right to study these precious fossils, says Anthropologist Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, "it would be an unparalleled tragedy." Studies of aboriginal bones are yielding some particularly important findings. Scientists had long assumed that the original Australians migrated to the continent from Indonesia about 10,000 years ago and, isolated from the influence of other societies...
HOSPITALIZED. Jean Harris, 61, former school headmistress now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for killing Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower; after suffering a heart attack at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she has been incarcerated since 1981; in Valhalla...
...captivated by the trappings of power, the limousines and helicopters. Like his boss, he does not put in a crushing day. He takes time for regular exercise and has a cultivated taste for fine food and wines. A couple of years ago, he collaborated on a book about diet and exercise, then put off publication after he was criticized for exploiting his White House connection. Not a reflective man, Deaver has an easy, self-deflating humor that invariably relaxes Reagan...
Hoddy put Bomber on a diet and set himself to winning the eagle's respect. At night the trainer would sleep in an easy chair, the bird on his arm. During the day, slowly, using meat as the incentive, he taught Bomber...