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...passing up the lavish meals and lazing around usually associated with holidays, and are preparing instead for the nausea, headaches and grumpiness that can occur when fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol are flushed from the system. The good news is that detox programs get easier after the initial shock. "What was strange was that there was no hunger at all," says Kurt Thompson, a Seoul-based marketing-research manager, of his weight-loss vacation at the Farm?a health retreat in the Philippines' lush Batangas province. The self-confessed "300-pound man mountain" shed 12 pounds (5.4 kg) thanks...
...DIED. ZURAB ZHVANIA, 41, influential, reform-minded Prime Minister of Georgia and close ally to President Mikhail Saakashvili; of carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently from a space heater in the apartment of an acquaintance, who also died; in Tbilisi. The incident was a shock, but not unheard of in Georgia, where 45 others have died under similar circumstances in the past three years. A key advisor to the president, Zhvania was a leader in the popular 2003 uprising that ousted President Eduard Shevardnadze...
...know we are a strong team and we can get out there and perform like this,” Papadakis said. “So it didn’t come as a shock that we did this well...
...opposite side of the gym, the feeling of shock predominated. A slip-up against Brown had turned into a skid at Dartmouth, and now it became a season death warrant in Cambridge. They had waited anxiously but confidently for the dramatic comeback to occur...
...dismayed by the title of Charles Krauthammer's essay "Shock and Awe" [Jan. 24]. That was the name used by the U.S. military for massive bombings and missile attacks on Iraq at the start of the invasion. Krauthammer referred to the shock of the tsunami and marveled at humanity's overwhelming generosity in response to the disaster, but using a phrase associated with the Iraq war was unfortunate. His commentary ignored the misery and destruction of war. The tsunami was a natural disaster; the Iraqi tragedy was man-made...