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...gets it, nine girls do. There have been attempts to explain anorexia in the same way most doctors account for depression - as resulting from an imbalance of certain neurotransmitters in the brain - but these have tended to lead nowhere. Since anorexia was named in 1868 by English physician William Gull, says Mondraty, "we haven't made much progress on treatment...
...future of two tiny, remote islets almost equidistant between Japan and South Korea might appear to matter only to the black-tailed gull and 21 other species of birds native to their craggy outcroppings. Without arable land or any fresh water, these 18 hectares of rocky mounds are barely habitable by humans. Indeed, the islands' population consists of as few as three dozen people, including some 30 Korean police, one or two lighthouse keepers and a married couple who have lived and fished there for more than three decades. The economic significance of the islands is no less marginal...
...Summit, New Jersey. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance the failing company-which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) His stainless steel two-seater with doors that open upwards like a gull's wings did not sell, but won lasting fame as the time-travelling vehicle in the 1985 film Back to the Future...
...shown below and officially unveiled at the New York Auto Show last week, Volvo's "Your Concept Car" is supposed to be what women want. Some females found features like the ponytail rest a trifle sexist, but those who liked its handbag holders, computer-aided parking and easy-opening gull-wing doors will be happy to learn that the Volvo is just one of the formerly gender-neutral products being redone to suit them. Here's a sampler...
...officer on the general staff of Poland's army during the cold war, had unique access to some of the Soviet Union's choicest military secrets-and he passed them on to the enemy as a spy for the CIA. From 1972 to 1981, Kuklinski, whose code name was Gull, copied more than 35,000 pages of classified documents, often using a CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter. Perhaps his greatest service was to warn Washington in 1980 that the Soviets were planning to invade Poland to quash the country's fledgling trade union movement, allowing...