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...substituting vegetables for potatoes, which left the restaurants holding a surplus of spuds and struggling to fill the side orders. "It didn't take a lot of research to understand that America was under the influence of the Atkins revolution," Snead says. Enter menu items like the Tuscan spinach dip and the tuna-salad wrap. Ruby Tuesday, which was one of the first to start serving Atkins-friendly Splenda on the table next to the traditional Sweet'n Low, Equal and sugar packets, now has some 40 low-carb items on its revamped menu...
...industry, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, are feeling the pinch. "Any time there is anything new in the market, it is going to affect clients who want to lose weight quickly," says Cozette Phifer, spokeswoman at Jenny Craig. She concedes that new business is depressed but asserts that the dip won't last long. Both companies say they have refrained from introducing low-carb items because their nutritionists oppose the idea and think it's a fad that will fade. "We believe carbohydrates are an important part of a balanced diet," says Jim Evans, CEO of Jenny Craig...
...accountants, engineers, biochemists--make up the fastest-growing segment of the temporary work force and account for as much as a third of the business of large temp firms. That's helped lift temp agencies, which tend to do well in a recovering economy, as companies use them to dip a toe into the hiring pool. Since April 2003, the temporary-services industry has gained 212,000 jobs, accounting for nearly one-third the total growth in payroll numbers...
...that has Prince begging from the living room. It starts with a "Come on, baaaaaaaby," proceeds to a line about how "it's undignified to sleep alone" and reaches its climax--yeah, yeah--with a grand moment when the backup singers go "bip-bip-a-bip-a-dee-dip," the horns wail away and Prince slides down the begging scale from falsetto to a great big rumbling roar. It's the best James Brown song in years...
...decades she barely swam - just the odd dip with her kids in a lake or public pool - while her Olympic medals were consigned to a box in her wardrobe. Racked by bouts of restlessness and depression, she came to believe that swimming was part of who she was and denying it was dimming her spirit. She received, she says, no sympathy from her husband - "He never understood my motivations, my essence." After their marriage ended in 1997, it wasn't long before the pool lured her back. And by clocking a personal-best...