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...approach to books as yet another product to be marketed has its downside. In some ways, “Mindless Eating” is intellectual instant gratification, the literary equivalent to delicious but airy cotton candy. Though Wansink explores the possible implications of the studies for weight loss strategies, he never considers any of the greater implications...
...says his company's multigreen model is best suited for the market. "With the kind of strong growth that the renewable market is in, we have to think in cycles," he says. "It's important not to be dependent on only one country, one customer or one product." With revenues of about $1 billion expected in 2006 vs. $672 million last year, the company is looking beyond Germany for growth...
...than precedes, the development of anorexia." The pair plan to conduct a follow-up study on the 10 anorexic patients in about two years to see whether brain activity has normalized in those who've recovered. If it has, that would suggest that what they've observed is a product of the disease - triggered, perhaps, by malnutrition - rather than a hardwired abnormality. Brain-imaging skeptics would argue that all Mondraty and Sachdev have observed is an extreme example of what happens in the brain when we focus on something that makes us feel anxious and inadequate, or when dread causes...
...trade with North Korea, which has more than quadrupled since 1999. Others have benefited from doing business with the North: energy and fuels constitute the bulk of China's exports to the North, accounting for nearly $300 million last year. Significantly, food was the second largest product, at about $150 million, followed by electrical and other machinery and plastics...
...Sierra Vista, Ariz., discovered the EWC website by accident but now answers about seven to 10 letters a week. When she spotted a request from a young woman in an interracial relationship who wondered if love could conquer all--even family disapproval--Blanks knew she had to answer. The product of an interracial marriage, Blanks had experienced firsthand what challenges might lie ahead. "I told her how one set of my grandparents would have nothing to do with me," she says. "I asked if she and her boyfriend were strong enough to handle a relationship--as well as future children...