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...more daily servings of starches, like rice and potatoes, and other complex carbohydrates, including pasta, whole-grain breads and cereals, and legumes. These are generally low in fats and rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. Five or six servings may seem a lot, but a single serving is just half a cup of vegetables, a medium-size piece of fruit or a slice of bread. Observes the University of Toronto's Dr. Anthony Miller, who helped draft the report: "If you eat a mixed salad and have fruit for dessert, your meal might contain three servings...
Lyndon Johnson, as Senate majority leader and early on as President, could polish off a dozen or so Scotch-and-sodas in an afternoon and evening. He claimed they were half strength. He never lost control, just looked stunned. He quit cold turkey in the White House, switching to Fresca and root beer. For whatever reason, his presidency went downhill thereafter. White House abstinence was tried by Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter. Results were dismal...
...were making movies, but they were really making magic in 1939, the most glittering twelve months of Hollywood's Golden Age. There was Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . . . on and on, with stars whose names have lasted a half-century...
...Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy will hold hearings to investigate growing complaints that many heavily promoted IVF clinics misrepresent their success rates. The panel's chairman, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, intends to reveal an industry survey showing that the performance of IVF practitioners varies enormously. According to Wyden, half the IVF clinics have yet to achieve a birth, though they may charge up to $7,000 for each fertilization attempt. Says the Congressman: "With millions of couples, many of them desperate, spending huge sums of money on technology that has been sold through borderline advertising, you've got a prescription...
...industry insists that most customers are not cheated because they are told their chances of having a baby are slim. And many fertility specialists doubt that misleading advertising is as prevalent as Wyden claims. In fact, his assertion that half the clinics have never had a birth may be overstated because at least some of them have not been open long enough for a patient to complete a pregnancy...