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...study of 56 patients reported in Chest, Dutch researchers found obese men couldn't metabolize carbohydrates as well as obese women. That may explain why the men were less fit and had a higher rate of diabetes...
Agatha Christie created Poirot in her first novel, the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and he was in movies by 1931. This mustachioed dandy with a French accent as hokey as Inspector Clouseau's was a perfect fit for Peter Ustinov, who gave Poirot heft and a subversive slyness in three features (including this 1978 caper with Bette Davis and Maggie Smith) and then three spiffy TV films...
...hoping to find something that pays about 200,000 yen [approximately $2,000 a month]." In the meantime, he works as a furniture mover in Tokyo. Then there's Rika Saihara, 23, who recently quit a full-time job with a storage company because, she says, she didn't fit in at work. She hasn't had a job in three months, but because she is living at home with her parents in Tokyo, she doesn't feel any rush. "I am thinking of registering at a temp agency and looking for some type of social work," she says...
...TIME: Why is buying Unocal a good deal for CNOOC? Fu: We are a value-driven company. We look at Unocal's assets?both the reserves it has already discovered as well as undeveloped [oil and gas] properties it owns?as a very good strategic fit for us. We are in the oil and gas business in Asia and so is Unocal...
...lunchtime, fears of a repeat attack seemed to be fading and passengers on London?s buses looked a bit more comfortable in their seats. Riding into town from Hammersmith, teenage girls chattered brightly on the bottom deck and finally exited in a fit of giggles. It was almost business as usual. On any other day the sharp knock at the back of the bus as it approached Piccadilly Circus might have been interpreted as something mundane: an umbrella hitting the floor, a high heel?s clatter. Today it provoked a panic for one woman seated in the back...