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...When Moon's not chasing me with his Timex to get me to swallow pills or shakes, I pass hours swinging in my hammock contemplating king prawns in chili sauce. But it's not the meals I miss so much as the sense of purpose meals provide. Eating gives me something to do. The closest I come to cheating happens one afternoon in the spa while undergoing a papaya body-wrap treat-ment. As I lie mari-nating in the pulpy, orange goop, I realize that with a little bend-ing, I could eat the for-bidden fruit slathered...
...infrastructure while trimming costs by eliminating back-office duplication. "You get commercial intensity because you end up with a larger sales force and more strength in a particular category," says Accenture's Blumberg. "From a research perspective, with smaller companies, it's relatively hit or miss that the next drug is going to fit in with their commercial strength. With a large company, you're much more likely to have good coverage." Some doubt that merger mania is genuinely benefiting the companies involved. Robert Gray, a mergers and acquisitions expert at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, says industry mergers have...
...George W. Bush figures to miss...
Sitting down at home on a pristine white chair, she lets her two large Labradors cover her and the furniture with dog hair as they wrestle at her feet. When it's pointed out that some people might miss the old Lynne Cheney who knew how to stir up a little trouble, she says how happy she is with her new life and what a relief it is "not to have to have an opinion about everything...
...Miss Peggy Lee, they always called her. If the honorific was meant to elevate a plain stage name (she was born Norma Deloris Egstrom), the effort was redundant; for Lee, vocally and visually, was class and sass in one platinum package. Statue-still onstage, whispering her lyrics like postcoital pillow talk, Lee gave a guilty-secret glow to the blandest ballads. By the mid-'40s she was a pop star and a rare singer-songwriter (It's a Good Day, Manana); in 1955 she composed songs for Disney's Lady and the Tramp and 36 years later won a suit...