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...featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They are hoping to create a whole new category for the Guinness Book of World Records...
HANOVER, N.H.--As the Winter Carnival ice sculptures begin to melt and the most hallowed Dartmouth tradition draws to a close, the remote New Hampshire campus remains impassioned and chaotic...
...unattainable dreams of physicians. Numerous studies have shown that the buildup of plaque in the arteries can be halted by diet, drugs and exercise aimed at controlling cholesterol levels. But a few tantalizing studies have suggested that if levels are reduced drastically enough, plaque may actually begin to melt away. Only in the past few years have doctors had the tools to achieve such reductions. LDL-pheresis is one example, while new experimental drugs like Mevinolin, particularly when combined with existing drugs, also hold great promise. "What's exciting now," observes Biochemist Thomas Parker, director of the Rogosin lipid laboratory...
Which may explain why Miou-Miou waltzes through the ever-changing locations of this movie looking like she's going to melt. After a remarkable performance in last year's Entire Nous, she must be credited with playing Alice as believably as is possible. In scene after scene, she is able to tell whichever husband she is away from that she misses him with a fair degree of sincerity...
Many historians disagree. Hispanics, says Sheldon Maram, a professor of history at California State University at Fullerton, "are moving at about the same level of acculturation as the Poles and Italians earlier in the century. Once they've made it, they tend to move out of the ghetto and melt into the rest of society." Asians often have it easier because they come from urban middle-class backgrounds. "They are the most highly skilled of any immigrant group our country has ever had," says Kevin McCarthy, a demographer at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif...