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...Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan divides people into thyroids, adrenals, gonads or pituitaries, recommending different foods for each one. The big drawback of this diet is discovering that you are a gonad. Followers of the raw-foods diet eat only uncooked food; the Caveman Diet allows you to eat only what Stone Age people ate; and The Body Code, by Jay Cooper, divides dieters into warriors, nurturers, communicators and visionaries. Nurturers, in addition to eating lots of fruits and vegetables, no doubt do most of the cooking. More popular is Gwen Shamblin's The Weigh Down...
...drawback is really that the lectures don't cohere that strongly with the sections," said Scott G. Bromley '03, who is taking Ec 10. "The class covers a lot of very technical graphs and calculations, and that's impossible to do with 800 kids...
...Saraiya echoed these sentiments. "It's good, because it ensures that you have all your application materials together early. The only drawback is that there is a short turnaround time to get your recommendation letters in order," she said...
...bellyache is really appendicitis. In up to 20% of cases, doctors operate only to find a perfectly healthy appendix. Now a study shows that examining the abdomen with ultrasound or a CAT scan is 94% accurate in diagnosing whether a sick child does or does not require surgery. One drawback: a nonradioactive dye must be administered through the child's rectum before a CAT scan can be performed...
...biggest drawback: it's hard to get a Free-PC. More than 1 million people applied for the first 10,000, which were awarded by a secret formula the company refuses to divulge. (The company did lend me a unit to test, and I was asked to complete the application form.) Another 20,000 will go out by year's end, but odds are you won't win one. My advice: if you can't wait for the next Free-PC lottery, buy a $1,000 system from Gateway or Dell instead. You'll get a 400-MHz system with...