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...Patriot and Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The other winners connected with audiences' fondness for old franchises (the James Bond The World Is Not Enough), twisted family dramas (American Beauty, Double Jeopardy), barnyard critters (Stuart Little, Chicken Run) and black comics dolled up as fat women (Big Momma's House). Moreover, the films without top names usually cost a lot less to make, so the back end was bigger--and not just Big Momma...
...heart disease and other consequences of obesity before simply tuning it all out and popping another Pringle's. Now, however, there's one more reason to listen to the seeming scolds: the danger of diabetes. According to a report published last week in the journal Diabetes Care, as a fat and happy U.S. gets fatter still, the incidence of diabetes is rising too, striking more and more people in younger and younger age groups--and threatening them with everything from blindness to amputations to heart attacks...
...diabetes numbers have been climbing, so have the numbers on many people's scales. In 1991 just 12% of the U.S. population was considered obese; by 1998 it was 20%. Meanwhile, the share of people considered to be at least "overweight" climbed from 44% to 54%. All the added fat appears to make the body steadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to compensate by producing more and more of that essential hormone. Ultimately the body becomes so unresponsive that injected insulin supplements or other medication may become necessary...
...Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, Asian stars who have made their mark on both sides of the Pacific, play wise warriors defending their lord from a mysterious invader. While Chow and Yeoh tiptoe toward the awareness that they may have little time to realize their unspoken love, a girl-woman (radiant ingenue Zhang Ziyi) teases them with her suspiciously superior martial skills and tests both their emotional and physical equilibrium...
...merger (word is the old-school suits over there will hold out for an extremely dignified deal). Intel, Cisco Systems and Oracle drove NASDAQ, basically because they're the best bets in a rather shaky tech sector, and investors like to have their portfolios nice and fat before the long weekend...