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...fen/phen all the rage in the mid-1990s, victory finally seemed near in the war on fat. Selling by the millions, the little pills appeared to melt away pounds without maddening diets, demanding exercise or nasty side effects. But as investigative reporter Alicia Mundy reminds us in her absorbing postmortem, Dispensing with the Truth (St. Martin's Press; 402 pages; $24.95), what began as a panacea for intractable obesity--and a bonanza for the pillmakers--quickly turned into a public health disaster...
...bathtub, they found Lucie's body cut into eight pieces, buried approximately 50 cm beneath the sand. At first, investigators couldn't identify the corpse. The head had been entombed in cement. The body parts were so badly decayed that their gender could not even be determined. When postmortem examiners cut into the cement encasing the head in hopes of finding teeth to match with dental records, they immediately found one identifiable feature, unmistakably foreign: long, natural blond hair...
...business-siders, of course, will probably pretend that it is, and slather on another layer of hype, glory, postmortem get-togethers, affiliate appearances and product placements next season. Forgive them - this thing practically saved their whole network, after...
Last Wednesday, the morning after President George W. Bush made his prime-time debut, more than a dozen House and Senate Democrats gathered for a postmortem in the L.B.J. Room of the Capitol. Pollster Geoff Garin ran through the results of his focus groups--what viewers had responded to, what they were still worried about. "The bottom line was Bush had a pretty good night," says a participant. "People liked him. They liked his presentation. They thought it was balanced." It was one more sign of how profoundly the world has changed since the last time the Democrats sat listening...
...Soviet Union and now Russia and delivered upwards of 6,000 pages of classified stuff into their hands. In the process, analysts believe he compromised every important human and electronic penetration of Russia for the past 15 years. A blue-ribbon panel has been set up to undertake a postmortem of the FBI, to determine how to thwart other moles. As Freeh admitted frankly, "We don't say, at this stage, that we have a system that can prevent this type of conduct...