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...long as happy dieters and supportive doctors keep going on talk shows, people with eating problems aren't going to resist a diet that lets you eat pork rinds. Sam Panayotovich, 53, the Illinois state liquor commissioner, has been following a combination of Atkins and a 1979 local diet known as the whipped-cream-and-martini diet. The diet allows fondue, bourguignon, bearnaise, fried chicken, chunks of steak and enough alcohol for a buzz. He's lost 53 lbs. and kept it off for 11 months, a personal record. Like most Atkins adherents, the liquor commissioner talks about his diet...
American pop music is cruel retaliation for measles, small pox and other emigre diseases stowed in the ships of 17th century European explorers. Pop is more easily communicable, needs no ships and seems impossible to quarantine. After all, what self-respecting group of teenage boys could resist what Bloom calls a "nonstop, commercially prepackaged, masturbatorial fantasy?" The trouble is, it's not just German teenagers who are infected. My family's hosts were mature adults, the owner of the store in Fischen was an elderly Christian soldier who did not seem prone in the least to indulgence in nonstop masturbatorial...
Kahn, a native Brooklynite who covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald-Tribune throughout the 1950s, always tried to resist the temptation to make mental assumptions about how a given game would turn...
...march into Grozny, the Chechen capital. But they could be heading into a trap. "The Chechens are well-armed and well-organized, and they?re just waiting for the Russians to come onto more favorable terrain," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They haven?t made much effort to resist Moscow?s offensive on the northern flatlands, where they?re vulnerable to the Russians? superior firepower and air support. But they?ll give the Russians a fierce fight in the mountains and forests across the river...
...immediate threats to your health and well-being that smoking may seem like a relatively minor danger," says Dowell. It may be some time, though, before the Chinese follow the JAMA study's recommendations. After all, as any smoker or ex-smoker can attest, the habit is hardest to resist in times of stress ? and a China in the throes of an epic transition to capitalism looks set to be a very stressful place for a long time to come...