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...Lean women, including many athletes, have very little body fat, so a part of the brain called the hypothalamus represses the woman's menstrual cycle by keeping estrogen levels...
...example, women who are 5'5" or taller and weigh less than 108 pounds, Frisch said, were found to have no cycle because they were so lean...
...each other with vigor. The best and most rascally is Matt's candidate, Governor Solomon Jawinski, a fat, Polish-Jewish carpetbagger from Detroit who drives an old El Dorado convertible and knows how to talk redneck. In a TV debate he points out that his opponent is too lean and too handsome. "When everybody in this country looked like me," he says, "our farmers were rich! Everybody ate white bread and red meat! We drove big cars and ate big breakfasts!" Jawinsky could have beaten Robb and North together...
...promising. In Anne Rice's screenplay, which she adapted from her megaselling 1976 novel, Lestat and his crew are displaced aristocrats, glorious anachronisms. They are enslaved by bloodlust: every night a little death. They lean into the victims' necks and give them the hickey from hell, the infernal overbite -- the kiss that bleeds. The nightly rampages of these putty-faced predators suggest an aids metaphor: voluptuous sexuality with fatal consequences. And after a couple of hundred years, the vampires get the edgy sourness of people married too long...
Many Wall Street watchers have no doubt that even in a lean environment, Garzarelli will soon be snapped up. Traders and underwriters have suffered losses of$623 million in the second quarter (after earning $2.35 billion in profits the same quarter last year), so a record of good prognostication is sure to be worth something...