Word: magical
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...will figure out nutrition before the dietitians do") and got a recent validation when short-term studies showed a lack of negative effects from the diet. (A long-term study is in the works.) Atkins never wavered from his insistence that his low-carb approach was the dieter's "magic breakthrough." --By Harriet Barovick...
...Like Aurora's grandmother, Rhodes understands the subversive power of the simple tale, well told. And it's the tradition of European fairy and folktales that his stories evoke - where fixed notions of place and time evaporate, plots and passions hinge on chance encounters, and deform-ity and magic are the stuff of life. Despite his low profile to date in Britain, Rhodes' fabulist books have been translated into nine languages. And Timoleon Vieta is a very un-British novel. Not that it matters. It is funny, beguiling and sentimental, with a dark undertow that will tug at the memory...
...this to Kuwait, where oil sales could provide every man, woman and child over $10,000 a year. In order to raise the living standards of the average Iraqi oil, revenue will have to be one pillar used as a base to build a modern economy and not a magic elixir capable of creating a transformation...
...everything has worked out for the pitching staff, especially in the No. 4 spot where the continued shoulder soreness of freshman Matt Brunnig led to another emergency start by senior Matt Self in game one yesterday. Self couldn’t reconjure last weekend’s magic, and the Crimson was left scrambling...
...Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of The Sorceror. The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at the outdated Victorian values of its time, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences. Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets...