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...quest to answer this double-sided question is in its earliest stages. Already, however, a series of fascinating insights into the biology of obesity has emerged. Behind our broadening behinds and widening waistlines, scientists say, lies a complex array of genes that, directly and indirectly, links our gut to our brain. These genes, honed by millions of years of evolution, appear to have betrayed many of us in the 21st century world...
...dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading. But the pills turn out to be a bit more than Supes can handle. "Blurp!" "Plup!" "Splap!" and "Shlup!" are about the only remaining parts of this gut-busting farce I can include here...
...greatly valued on Sept. 10 (entrepreneurialism, ambition, stick-to-itiveness) are relevant, necessary, even heroic now. We want them to make us believe--for the sake of the Todd Beamers still reluctantly catching flights--that "re-evaluating our priorities" and "doing business as usual" are, despite everything our gut tells us, really the same thing...
...worked with her recently, "and that's good and bad, but she can get down in the trenches and help you work out a story." Her own ascent to power, however, hasn't been easy. Though she was named chairman in 1999, she seemed to lack the golden gut of the most successful studio chiefs. She released a string of uninspired teen movies and such duds as the 2000 Sandra Bullock-goes-to-rehab drama 28 Days. Guessing when she would be fired by her Sony bosses became a favorite Hollywood pastime...
...Paramount exec in the early '70s.) Lansing concedes that being a woman heavily influences the kinds of movies she makes. "You have all these rational reasons why you make a movie," she says. "It's a good story, the budget's right. But ultimately it's your gut, and it has to be affected by who you are. It's like a Rorschach test...