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...particularly true in wind-battered Carnoustie, where nothing in the air is safe. In this part of Scotland, where golf has been played since the 1500s, even breeze-hardened seagulls are swept across fairways like errantly sliced golf balls. But the course, with par fours frequently stretching in excess of 450 yds. (411 m), proved too long for the standard earthbound strategy. That was the Carnoustie challenge: how to develop a shot that wouldn't be at the mercy of the gales but could pierce right through them...
...from the European Commission is the proposal to ban the use of sugar, which has been used for centuries to increase the alcoholic strength for labels such as Champagne. Fischer Boel wants winemakers to use unfermented grape juice instead, a move that would use some of the continent's excess capacity - even if it costs three times as much as using sugar...
...more complications than young adults. In fact, only 13% of patients, age 65 and older, who had laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) - a surgical procedure that inserts a hollow band around the stomach to limit food intake - had complications. Even more compelling, nearly two-thirds of patients lost their excess weight and significantly improved their obesity-related conditions like diabetes. "No one questions whether we should offer knee or hip replacements to people over age 65," says David A. Provost, an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who authored the study. "Weight loss surgery can provide...
...hoops before they will actually pick up the tab for bariatric surgery. Providers often require that patients lose a specified amount of weight by staying on a medically enforced diet plan. However, a new study from Duke University Medical Center found that 62% of bariatric surgery patients trimmed the excess fat regardless of whether they lost or gained 10 pounds before surgery. "There is no value in policies like this," says Dr. Eric DeMaria, the study's lead author. "If there is no value, we shouldn't use it as a requirement...
...Spectator, a result of the unwelcome interference of "cultural commentators, celebrity chefs, nanny-state ministers and controlling wives." Other critics see Whole Foods 30 varieties of tomatoes and the like as indicators that the healthy instinct to seek organic and local produce is being channeled into American-style consumerist excess. "Whole Foods is over the top," wrote one London newspaper commentator. "It's Americanism gone...