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...eventually wed, but many thought it would take a long time. For their part, the couple say they never had any real doubts. Even so, it's fair to note that much about their relationship was unresolved before Sept. 11. Today Genelle sees any uncertainty between them as a function of not having Christ at the center of their lives. "I was busy partying," she says. "I didn't want too much pressure with my relationship...
...developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because of his condition, he was fired from the San Francisco police force. Yet when a tough case comes up, his former colleagues keep calling him back to save their heinies...
...Israel's dictate, they would one day have the elemental right to rule themselves. If they did not know precisely how they would be delivered, they at least knew by whom: Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Although they were trampled as a people, the Palestinians continued to function as families, clans and towns, held together by old traditions...
...sounds like a weight watcher's dream come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant--the body's way of telling the brain it's time to push the plate away. If a pharmaceutical company could put it in a pill and sell it at the drugstore, you might, just might, never again have to count calories or wrestle with your willpower. Just pop one of these things before a meal, and your stomach says--entirely on its own--"No, thank...
...scientific name for this remarkable substance is PYY3-36, or PYY for short, but the researchers who discovered its new function have dubbed it, appropriately enough, the fullness hormone. "If you give it prior to a meal, it switches off the appetite," says Dr. Stephen Bloom, an endocrinologist at Hammersmith Hospital in London. "PYY is what makes you less hungry after a meal...