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...Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the U.S. in Iraq." SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, explaining why the company pulled from its eight ABC-TV stations an edition of Nightline in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of all the U.S. service members killed in action in Iraq...
...million for full-page ads that ran in 31 major newspapers last Friday. The ads pointedly attack the claim in Dr. Arthur Agatston's South Beach Diet that beer is laden with the carb maltose, a sugar. "The South Beach diet is enormously popular," says Francine Katz, a spokeswoman for Anheuser. "But there is information in there about beer that is incorrect, and a call to any brewer would have cleared it up." She says that all maltose turns to alcohol and carbonation in the brewing process and that Anheuser won't rule out legal action if Agatston fails...
...past couple of years, exiting programs that emphasize portion control. The heavyweights of the diet industry, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, are feeling the pinch. "Any time there is anything new in the market, it is going to affect clients who want to lose weight quickly," says Cozette Phifer, spokeswoman at Jenny Craig. She concedes that new business is depressed but asserts that the dip won't last long. Both companies say they have refrained from introducing low-carb items because their nutritionists oppose the idea and think it's a fad that will fade. "We believe carbohydrates...
...wrest a correction out of Agatston. Interestingly, Anheuser stumbled on the maltose issue when one of its St. Louis--based brewmasters, John Serbia, read Agatston's book before starting the South Beach diet this winter. Serbia ignored the part about abstaining from beer and lost 15 lbs., says Anheuser spokeswoman Katz...
...fictional thriller. Why? Because Schröder thinks it looks too much like him. Publisher Betzel Verlag says it has recalled copies of The End of the Chancellor - The Final Shot. In the tale, the pharmacist hero shoots a German Chancellor he blames for his business bankruptcy. A spokeswoman for Betzel says Schröder is never mentioned in the novel; at issue was a small keyhole-type photo on the cover showing just an ear, an eye and some hair. Despite all the fuss, so far only 30 copies have been ordered by bookstores. - By Charles P. Wallace...