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...Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat?if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
...Fed up with choosing among decaf mocha, latte frapp? or iced mellocino? Then head to Bangkok's Abyssinia Caf?, tel: (66-2) 655 3436, where there's just one type of coffee on the menu: strong. And that's just how the regulars like it. Ethiopian Tigist Fekade, 37, opened the caf? a few months ago, wanting to give her customers a taste of the drink's Ethiopian roots (coffee is named after the country's Kaffa region)."Coffee is my country's gift to the world," she says, roasting a handful of green beans from Sidamo over charcoal embers...
...Iran, as elsewhere, the students matter. Twenty-five years ago, it was Iranian students who were the vanguard of the revolution that toppled the Shah and seized the U.S. embassy. Now they generally are fed up with a government run by Islamic clerics. Young Iranian women still wear the traditional head scarves, but many now wear them with tight-fitting jeans--at once a religious, political and fashion statement. Students recently packed lecture halls at Tehran University to hear a series of talks straightforwardly billed "Transition to Democracy." One of the speakers was Mohsen Kadivar, a young cleric who talks...
RICHARD BERNSTEIN: Whoever is President, they'll end up raising taxes because the deficit is a problem. That may be a bigger issue than the Fed chairman...
TIME: Does choosing the next Fed chief shape up as the biggest decision the next President will make for investors...