Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several of the good restaurants in the northern part of the city. Last Tuesday night Santacruz and three business associates dropped by a steakhouse called Carbon...
...first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions had fat "marbled throughout the system like a prime steak...
Certainly the next round of cuts will hit meat as well as fat. Thier has vowed to bring the ratio of specialists to primary-care physicians in the two hospitals, currently 8 or 9 to 1, down to 1 to 1, while also reducing the total staff. "We're all going to get killed,'' says a Harvard Medical School executive close to the situation. "Now the primary-care physicians have the specialists by the short hairs...
...every woman will feel the symptoms so intensely. Heavy women tend to have an advantage at menopause, since fat cells manufacture a form of estrogen called estrone. Some lucky women, regardless of weight, simply churn out more estrone once estrogen from the ovaries shuts...
...that choice may want to examine the alternatives. There are other ways to fight osteoporosis and heart disease: don't smoke; get regular exercise that is both weight bearing (to prevent bone loss) and aerobic (to condition the cardiovascular system); eat a diet rich in calcium and low in fat. And, of course, there are other drugs for heart disease and several promising new ones in the pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have become all the rage among...