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...great mysteries of nutrition: how the French manage to consume liters of fine wine and beaucoup de bonbons and still stay slim. Author Guiliano, now a dual citizen, claims to have decoded the secret in her surprise best seller, French Women Don't Get Fat(Knopf). Even the current U.S. antagonism toward all things Gallic has not dampened the book's reception. It has gone through six printings and shot to No. 2 on Amazon.com...
...will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium All too often, time chooses the U.S. President as Person of the Year. Bush won re-election by a very slim margin. No great performance there. And the President is by no means a revolutionary. He is responsible for invading a country under false pretenses, clamping down on personal freedoms at home, conducting a reckless fiscal policy and letting the dollar slide. It's an insult to the word revolutionary...
...hour later he strolls into a sponsor's function in a crisp, white shirt and jeans. He looks boyish and surprisingly slim across the shoulders, a reminder that for all the buzz about power racquets and booming strokes, tennis is a game of timing. A woman in her 30s wins a watch in a raffle, and it's for Federer to present it to her. She's not sure whether to kiss him and makes a late and sudden lunge for his cheek; he responds with a quick and slightly awkward lunge for hers. Mostly he grins and chuckles while...
...Demos, founder of White Wave and creator of Silk. In fact, Simon argues that Hain can benefit from other companies' marketing campaigns. "We have great products, but our industry needs to do a better job of telling its story," says Simon, who was fired after a short stint at Slim-Fast Foods Co. in the early '90s for his outspoken views on the company's single-minded approach to diet. "Hain alone can't educate consumers about eating healthy. They will help us get our fair share...
Sony, meanwhile, is trying to extend its PlayStation franchise to younger kids with its EyeToy technology, which features a camera that puts the player onscreen. In EyeToy: Groove, players bop to the likes of Madonna and Fatboy Slim, and a calorie counter shows how much of that Big Mac you have burned up--a nod to parents concerned that too much sedentary screen time is making their kids fat. Plug 'n' play games--cheap cartridges that plug directly into the TV--are also expected to do well this season, thanks to a revival of classics like old Atari titles...