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...Budget Surplus. Tax cuts, pork, Social Security reform--after years on a fiscal diet, watch Congress try to divide the spoils of these fat years as it hungrily eyes the unexpected revenue filling the government's coffers...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Summer Amusement | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

...miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels. "And I'm thinking, But I had that huge piece of chocolate cake last night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Pain, No Sweat | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...time spring break rolled around, I was a sorry sight. All the hours I had spent indoors trying to churn out my thesis made me an even whiter shade of pale. My late night diet consisted of oreos that I washed down with Pepsi. Upon our final meeting, my adviser stopped in his tracks to ask me if I was all right. "You don't look so good," he told me. But all this did not matter when one thought came into my head--BAHAMAS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALCYON DAYS | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...arrived comatose, but within days perked up and began gaining 2 lbs. an hour. She dined at first on a baby formula of cream mixed with mushed-up herring and vitamins--sort of a whale version of New England clam chowder--and later switched to bottom feeding on a diet of krill. She became an instant Sea World celebrity, and the p.r. apparatus sprang into gear; there were J.J. souvenirs, live J.J. images on Sea World's Website, even J.J. banners flying in front of Sea World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aboard the Conifer: My, How You've Grown! | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

REDUX REDUX Taking the diet drug for several months does not cause heart-valve problems, at least according to a study by its manufacturer. The finding contradicts earlier reports of heart-valve troubles in Redux users, some of whom took the pill for longer periods of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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