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...realm of metabolism," observes Dr. Theodore VanItallie of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. But this evidence could also lead to despair. If people are born to be fat, are attempts to slim down doomed? No, say weight specialists. Low-fat diets and exercise can help offset heredity. People may inherit a propensity to obesity, but it need not be their destiny...
...Ivory Coast the weak spot was falling world prices for cocoa, its chief export. The government unveiled plans in mid-February for sweeping income tax increases to offset the public-sector deficit, sparking two months of often violent strikes and street demonstrations. Little used to overt dissent, the government responded with force. Police and soldiers broke up protests using truncheons, tear gas and occasionally live ammunition. One schoolboy was shot dead...
...plant's output showed that this hypothesis was unfounded. More important, the aviation industry switched from rayon cord to metallic cord. Whatever rationale the Baikal complex may once have had -- and it never offset the potential harm to the lake -- vanished. Construction nevertheless went ahead, with whole armies of officials defending their decision and saving face by insisting on the complex's importance for the defense of the country, the usual clinching argument...
...opposition faces an uphill sprint. The Communists, who have ruled for 69 years, enjoy access to state money, media and organizational apparatus. To offset those advantages, six opposition parties and groups have agreed to field common candidates in the elections. Even if Mongolia's first democratic exercise is fair, local and foreign observers in Ulan Bator predict that the Communists will win by a comfortable margin. Still, it would seem that the days of absolute rule are over...
...Edinburg, Texas, packer of C rations, which relies on the Pentagon for 95% of its revenues. Barth, whose staff of 700 employees assembles 3.1 million cases of dehydrated field rations a year, says he is banking on projections that the sharp reductions in active-duty personnel will be offset by stepped-up reserve training. If so, Right Away's foods would still be needed...