Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hospital on a rutted, dead-end lane. The Second Secretary here is Zhavdets Ilyasov, 49, a retired colonel of Interior Ministry troops. The peeling wallpaper and crumbling ceiling in his office do not discourage him. He takes pride in the obvious differences between his austere communist organization and the fat cats of the old Soviet nomenklatura, who in the new Russia have profited from their high positions. "It is a myth," he says, "that we have a 'Red Governor' in Ulyanovsk. Those in charge here are former party secretaries who are now comfortably well...
...project to go to neighboring Burbank or Universal City. Complains councilman Nate Holden, a Democrat who represents part of inner-city Los Angeles and was the lone dissenter when the council voted on the project: "We're being asked to help the rich. This is a bunch of fat cats getting together and giving to one another...
WHILE GENETICS PLAYS A MAjor role--black Americans, for example, have a 37% higher risk than whites of contracting the disease--environment is obviously involved. In such countries as China and Japan, where low-fat diets of vegetables and fish are the norm, the incidence of prostate cancer is extremely low. But prostate-cancer rates for first- and second-generation Japanese Americans are considerably higher than in Japan...
Those facts seem to point to an environmental factor, probably the change to a Western diet. In a test of that conjecture, researchers at Sloan-Kettering, led by Dr. William Fair and pharmacologist Warren Heston, discovered that tumors grew more rapidly in mice fed a high-fat diet than in those on a low-fat diet. And when the animals on high-fat diets were switched to low-fat ones, the growth of their tumors slowed...
...private dietitian, consists of mushroom barley soup, a tofu egg-salad sandwich (the "egg" is actually tofu with mustard and spices ) with carrots and lettuce, and a black-bean-and-corn salad with a soy-based drink. One of Milken's favorites, an Egg McNothing, consists of a fat-free crumpet with soy cheese, vegetarian Canadian bacon and scrambled egg whites...