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...this has made Sears a millionaire, but it has also won him a chorus of critics who dispute the scientific foundations of the Zone. They scoff at Sears' contention that ancient people shrank in height after the invention of bread. "Give me a break," says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Those kinds of statements are not good science." What about the insulin-makes-you-fat thesis? "Ridiculous," says Stanford University endocrinologist Gerald Reaven. The secret to weight loss, he says, still lies with cutting calories. In fact, skeptics argue, when Zone...
...Bill Clinton and other hamburger-loving Americans, nothing could have been scarier. At the height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...
...even more visually breathtaking than the divertissements are the truly magical snow scene and the battle scene in the first act, when the Christmas tree grows to a height of 40 feet, and the furniture grows in proportion, reducing Clara to the real-life perspective of a mouse. The battle scene also throws in plenty of laugh-provoking props, including pieces of cheese and giant forks and knives wielded by very hungry mice, and ups the kiddie appeal even more with children dressed not only as adorable dolls and toy soldiers but even as baby mice, smiling and marching with...
...first impression that strikes a customer strolling through the door is the vast amount of space inside the building. The main floor's ceiling height is inhibited only by the top of the third floor, while the second floor is just a glorified walkway along the store's walls...
...height of Goodman's RSI, he says that he could not even hold a can of soda. Even brushing his teeth was a painful task, he says...