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...Japan, foreigners learn soon enough that a one-yen coin floats on water (or beer), a perfect analogy for the last few years of the dollar's strength against Japanese currency. Now, however, the yen is sinking to the bottom of the glass as the dollar has becomes featherweight. On Thursday it slipped to 99.7 yen, the lowest it has been since November 1995. Following suit on Friday, Tokyo stocks plummeted to their lowest levels since August 2005. Just a few months ago, the rate was 113 to the dollar...
...Homesick is a featherweight farce about a an illiterate fool who stumbles into a bankrupt satellite television company in Baghdad - the Hot Hot Channel - and is mistaken for the new station manager. Its sensibility leans heavily toward slapstick of a kind that finds humor in the sight of a dwarf with an Egyptian accent being tossed offstage, and unlike in real-life Iraq, there are no car bombings or beheadings and none of the characters are kidnapped...
DIED. Lilly Rodriguez, 59, scrappy, pioneering athlete who in the 1970s helped popularize and legitimize boxing and kickboxing for women by winning a string of featherweight titles in both sports and defying skeptics who expected, in her words, "foxy boxing"; of complications from an infection; in Los Angeles...
Vlada Roslyakova One of a group of featherweight East European postwaifs now strutting the runways, she has a silhouette that appears skeletal...
Still, many doctors, like Binckley's, fail to spot the potentially fatal problem in an older person because they're not looking for it. And in a country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...