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...dieting pattern: there's a massive spike in the first week of January (usually lasting about five days after New Year's), followed by a trudging decline toward the nadir of wellness interest on Thanksgiving Day. Over the last two years, however, there's been an unseasonable bump in mid-September, a surge of interest online that coincides with the launch of the new fall TV line-up - including the premiere of NBC's hit reality show, The Biggest Loser, which pits teams of overweight contestants against each other to see who can lose the most weight...
Today, the capacity of the historical building overlooking the college town, where the baroque and mid-20th-century concrete stand in a jarring mix, has been downsized considerably. And the experiments within its walls are of a very different nature...
...tide appears to be shifting. A study similar to the trial in Würzburg is now under way in Amsterdam, and another, slated to begin in mid-October, is currently awaiting final approval by the ethics committee at the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany. There, in the renowned old research institution in the German southwest, neuro-oncologist Dr. Johannes Rieger wants to enroll patients with glioblastoma and astrocytoma, aggressive brain cancers for which there are hardly any sustainable therapies. Cell culture and animal experiments suggest that these tumors should respond particularly well to low-carb, high...
...daily Tageszeitung. Similar charges have been filed against the owners of other Berlin sites, including the Nazi-era Ministry of Finance, which are being used as a backdrop for the movie. Such criticisms are not going to stop the film from being made. It is scheduled for release in mid-2008. And thanks to the government's latest decision, the filmmakers are going to get all the authenticity they want...
...Someone who looks a lot like the mid-'60s Bob Dylan - except that he's called Jude Quinn and is played by Cate Blanchett - is lounging in a London hotel room, reading what he thinks are exaggerated news reports of his behavior. "God," he mutters, "I'm glad...