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...different plane," he says. And perhaps a more comfortable one: HB-SIA's pilot will sit in an unheated, unpressurized cockpit, in which he'll encounter -76ºF (-60ºC) temperatures at high altitude. In order to lighten the plane's load further, Boschberg has already gone on a diet...
...week of Thanksgiving also marks the year's lowest volume of searches on the term "diet." And it marks the peak of online searches for the term "depression," perhaps related to the failure to stick with our diets or, more likely, because we're stuck with - or without - our families. The good news, however, is that searches for "depression" and popular antidepressant medications have declined overall since Thanksgiving...
...Just Counting Calories I really appreciated the article "When Lite Gets Heavy" [Nov. 5]. I worked at a Subway restaurant for a year, and it amazed me how often customers would come in talking about the diet they were on and then order a huge sandwich piled high with pepperoni, salami and "lite" mayonnaise. But focusing on calories alone is not the way to a healthful diet. The 105-calorie egg in the 1,100-cal. salad you diagrammed, for example, provides high-quality protein. Calories are an important factor in one's diet; however, moderation is key. Andrea Johnston...
...fears that our gadgets may make us ruder and dumber and more easily distracted, it's a natural temptation to abandon technology, or at least vacation from it occasionally. First-time--and best-selling--author Timothy Ferriss has become a Silicon Valley darling by pushing his low-information diet as the secret to achieving The 4-Hour Workweek, which among other things involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really make us more efficient or less so? Do they bind us--or isolate us, becoming screens against...
...forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with an alkaline solution. "I've tried everything, and even cleaned with the special solution, but I am still pregnant with a girl," lamented one woman on an online forum. "Do you think my doctor sold me a fake product...