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...probably improve health. But dieting is more problematic. As most people who've tried it will attest, dieting with a goal of achieving lasting weight loss is all but guaranteed to fail. According to the Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria, 95% of people who go on weight-loss diets regain everything they've lost and more within two years. But why? Do all these people lack self-control? Highly unlikely. Proponents of the set-point theory argue that everyone's body is biologically programmed to stay around a certain weight and will fight attempts at maintaining a weight more than...
World Basketball Can Team U.S.A. rebound for gold? Without a big title since 2000, the U.S. men's basketball team will try to regain its glory at this week's World Championships. The gold is no layup, but would get the team into the 2008 Olympics...
...Ross was a Warrant Machinist on the U.S.S. Nevada in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed the American fleet and triggered World War II. Ross' valor, commemorated on homeofheroes.com, is the stuff of movie legend. (He did survive, regain his sight and marry his girlfriend.) But Hollywood didn't rush to make a stirring drama from his story, or from any aspect of that awful day in Hawaii (though the following year John Ford did direct a documentary, December 7th, that got limited release in theaters). Dec. 7, 1941, was a day that would live...
Alberto Beguiristain was once ready to risk his life to regain what he lost in Cuba. In 1960, a year after Fidel Castro took power, the revolution confiscated Beguiristain's large Spanish colonial house and two sugar mills in Sagua la Grande, east of Havana. Beguiristain recalls the "restitution" Castro offered: "He said I could leave the island alive." So in 1961, working for the CIA, Beguiristain ran the first arms shipments from Florida to anti-Castro insurgents for their disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. He was captured and says he would have been executed had he not escaped...
...clamor for some sort of compensation from a democratic transition government -payments the U.S., ironically, could end up bankrolling as a major aid donor. They could be similar, say U.S. officials, to reparations made in post-communist Eastern Europe, which in some cases let original home or building owners regain title to their property as long as they agreed to let the current occupants stay under a rent control agreement; and given Cuba's economic ruin, those who do regain industrial or commercial properties may be required to pump new investment into them...