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...gotten a little lighter lately, you might be right. Manufacturers are quietly trimming the content of their packaged products--from yogurt and ice cream to laundry detergent and diapers--and often they aren't dropping prices to match. Called a "weight out" in industry parlance, product downsizing lets companies maintain profit margins without raising prices. Faced with a flagging economy and increasingly finicky, cost-conscious consumers, manufacturers have been using this decades-old tactic more aggressively in the past year...
...some level, most of us figure the low-carb message has to be too good to be true. Certainly that's what we've heard over and over from the medical and nutritional establishments, which still maintain that the healthiest way to lose weight is to adopt a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. But Atkins, who died earlier this year after a fall, may yet get the last laugh. Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that there may be more health benefits to a low-carb diet than mainstream researchers had previously thought possible...
Plus, if we've learned anything over the past several decades of fighting the battle of the bulge, it's that short-term diets are no substitute for what should be lifelong changes in your habits. You have to move to maintain a healthy weight--hard enough to break a sweat at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week (45 minutes if you're trying to lose weight). You have to eat those fruits and vegetables--five to nine servings the size of your fist--every day. And while you're at it, it doesn't hurt...
...been similarly muted. So far, protests from abroad have been pro forma or nonexistent or, in the case of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, who wholeheartedly threw his support behind the Aceh campaign only days after the Peusangan massacre, bordering on cold hearted. The U.S. is too anxious to maintain good relations with its war-on-terror allies to do anything but urge the T.N.I. to make its soldiers' actions more transparent, a plea the T.N.I. notes and then ignores-as the U.S. allows it to do. If anything does disrupt U.S.-Indonesia relations, it will not be Acehnese blood...
...Stone said yesterday that Harvard plans to work hard to maintain trust...