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...break out the cartons of Ben & Jerry's just yet. For one thing, the research reported in Nature last week was just a modest first step. A dozen volunteers in London were injected at various times with either the hormone or a placebo. Then they were led to an Indian-food buffet and invited to pack away all they could eat. Result: while on PYY, the grazers voluntarily consumed one-third fewer calories...
Except for the dozens of pricey sunglasses on a table by the front door, you wouldn't know a star lived in this modest house high above Sunset Boulevard. Books and papers are stacked everywhere. Part of the living room is a makeshift office. She has outgrown the place, yet her eyes well up when she talks about selling it. "I'm having moving-on anxiety," she says. "But it will be on the market when we get closer to moving into our damn home." That home is a stately mansion she and Pitt purchased in Beverly Hills...
...surprising that Senate majority leader Tom Daschle felt a new urgency to pass just about any bill that might deny them bragging rights. The final compromise, proposed by Democrat Bob Graham of Florida and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon, would have limited coverage to seniors of low and modest income and to those who face catastrophic costs. It was skimpier than legislation that Democrats had earlier rejected as inadequate. This time it got the votes of all but five Democrats. But with only four Republicans supporting the bill, it came up short...
Arafat is already undermining the modest reforms he has undertaken since the U.S. increased the pressure on him to clean house three months ago. He blocked attempts last week by his new Interior Minister to fire seven senior police officers. And despite an earlier promise to remove the head of the National Security forces in the West Bank, Haj Ismail Jabr, whom Palestinian officials have accused of corruption, Arafat now wants simply to change Jabr's job and make him head of the police force, aides...
Mackey is a model CEO when it comes to bang for the buck. Last year he took home a relatively modest $350,000 in wages and bonus and $2.2 million from selling Whole Foods stock. (He owns only 1% of the shares outstanding.) The firm is running so smoothly these days that Mackey has all but disappeared. Since early April he has been hiking the Appalachian Trail; he intends to finish its entire 2,168-mile length by the fall...