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...have "an economic interest in defining unhealthy weight as broadly as possible and overstating the hazards of obesity." While stressing he's not an obesity expert, David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle, notes the potential for disease mongering among the overweight, and the gold-plated possibilities for drug companies, in a broad perception of an obesity crisis. "There aren't many frontiers left for mass-population treatment drugs," says Henry. "The blood pressure, cholesterol and mood-disorder drugs are all coming off patent. Obesity and substance abuse are probably the final two frontiers for drugs...
...President Bush revealed plans to appoint Clay Aiken to his Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities B) Former House majority leader Tom DeLay asked supporters to vote for country singer Sara Evans on Dancing with the Stars C) Three Senators nominated Jerry Lewis to receive the Congressional Gold Medal D) Congress passed an immigration bill ANSWERS...
FREE TO STAY SMOOSH THE AGES OF Seattle-based sisters Asya and Chloe--that would be 14 and 12--make Smoosh seem like a joke band. But the songs, written mostly on keyboards and drums, are 100% for real. Find a Way, Free to Stay and Gold deliver instant sunshine without being mannered or juvenile. The lyrics hew to the pop tradition of saying everything and nothing, except that in Asya's high tremolo, phrases like "I don't know why I do these things/ I always regret them/ In the end" sound deeply sincere and possibly even meaningful. Listen...
...gulf from Panama, and someone will meet you. Sure enough, a photographer and I landed on an airstrip cut in a cane field, and a very muscular Colombian escorted us to his four-wheel drive vehicle. There was another passenger: a glamorous woman whose arms were so laden with gold and emerald jewelry she could barely lift them. She was silent the entire journey, pensively tracing raindrops on the car window with her red lacquered fingernails...
DIED. Robert (Bob) Mathias, 75, legendary Olympian and former U.S. Congressman; in Fresno, Calif. Having taken up the decathlon only months before the 1948 London Olympics, Mathias won the gold medal at age 17. To celebrate, he said, "I'll start shaving, I guess." He repeated the feat at the next Olympics. As a Republican, he represented California in the House from...