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...Researchers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. [9 to 10 kg] of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. That's twice as much fat as is usually removed. The women were instructed not to diet or exercise more until the experiment was over. All reported that they felt better and could move more easily after surgery. But with respect to their metabolic risk...
Last week, a rather small weight lifter named Shi Zhiyong ambled onto a stage in Athens and heaved an Olympic record 152.5 kg before catapulting himself into an ecstatic backflip when he realized he had struck gold in the 62-kg competition. The 1.6-m Chinese athlete, who wistfully lists his hobby in the Chinese sports-delegation handbook as "food"?he had to shed 4 kg in four days to make the qualifying weight in Athens?later apologized for what he modestly considers his underwhelming physique. "I think my muscles are kind of small," says Shi, his compact body rippling...
...marksman Zhu Qinan, who had participated in only two international competitions before last week, set a new world record during his successful gold-medal quest in the men's 10-m air-rifle competition, while 21-year-old Liu Chunhong broke three world records in the women's 69-kg category in weight lifting. Four years after China sent its first-ever female field-hockey team to the Olympics, the Chinese became the first squad in Athens to win a semifinal berth. As of Saturday, the 3-0 Chinese team hadn't conceded a single goal. Although China's field...
...group. Two other Abu Sayyaf operators have used Alvarado's name to carry out previous attacks, according to Philippine intelligence officers. This Alvarado, whose real name was Redondo Cain Dellosa, hauled on board a cardboard box containing a television set. The TV, according to investigators, was packed with 3.6 kg of TNT. Making his way to the cheapest passenger section in the bowels of the ship, Dellosa carefully placed the box on his seat and slipped away just before the ferry cast off. An hour after its 11 p.m. sailing, just off Corregidor Island, an explosion tore through SuperFerry...
...more attempts to bomb passenger ferries departing from Manila for the southern cities of Zamboanga and Davao. In March, police arrested four Abu Sayyaf members in Manila who allegedly admitted they were preparing to blow up one of the city's busiest shopping malls using up to 36 kg of explosives toted in backpacks. (One of the men picked up was alleged SuperFerry bomber Redondo Cain Dellosa, who apparently spent several days before his arrest boasting to strangers in the capital about his role in the ferry attack in Manila...