Word: leape
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...might that be a problem? Generally speaking, high levels of insulin inhibit the breakdown of fatty deposits in the body. So, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest that eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the battle of the bulge. Or at least that's the theory that has launched a dozen diet books...
...generation had the worst luck," says Zhang Shixun, the 48-year-old captain of Feizhang No. 3, a ferry that makes the daily trip from Chongqing downstream to Wanxian. "When we were starting to build our bodies, there was no food (the famines caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward killed more than 20 million). When we started to study, the Cultural Revolution happened, so we were sent to the countryside and stopped learning. Now as we start to make some money, there are all these layoffs. The younger generation will have it much better...
China demands an epic. The country has size, majesty, mystery, history. Not to mention the Great Wall, the Long March, the Hundred Flowers and the Great Leap Forward. (China also had a great marketing department.) A movie about China ought to be long, lush, cruel and beautiful -- all good and marketable qualities. So why did Hollywood make so few of them...
...similar leap of illogic assumes that because women in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden consume lots of milk and also suffer high rates of breast cancer, the former must cause the latter. Another clunker is Cohen's claim that widespread lactose intolerance--the inability to digest dairy products--means milk is of little use as a source of calcium. In fact, many cases of lactose intolerance are mild and interfere only slightly with calcium uptake. Many people intolerant of milk can easily digest yogurt. And lactase tablets can make dairy products digestible even in severe cases...
About a billion of those magnetic word tiles already decorate refrigerators and file cabinets. This week the makers of Magnetic Poetry kits leap onto your PC. A $30 ElectroMagnetic Poetry CD-ROM sends word chips skimming the background of your choice (our favorite: the Fruit Loops). Just click and drag the words you want onto a palette, and voila...