Word: stomachable
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...time to push the plate away. If a pharmaceutical company could put it in a pill and sell it at the drugstore, you might, just might, never again have to count calories or wrestle with your willpower. Just pop one of these things before a meal, and your stomach says--entirely on its own--"No, thank you, I've had quite enough...
...issued by Boeing Capital--pay interest on a monthly basis. The biggest drawback? They're not backed by the government, and if you don't plan on holding them until maturity, you may end up selling at a discount because of their small secondary market. For those who can stomach the risk, the bonds are sold every Monday in increments of $1,000. For more information, log on to directnotes.com or internotes.com...
MADAGASCAR Mystery Virus The United Nations health agency sent a medical team to the Indian Ocean island to identify a mystery illness that has killed at least 184 people. The viral infection, with initial symptoms including headaches, pains and stomach cramps, is thought to have affected around 1,900 people in June and July. Most of the victims live in poor, isolated rural communities. Average incomes halved this year owing to a seven-month political crisis that ravaged the economy...
...number and, toward the end, shook his long, slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward, like a toupee attached at the brow line, virtually covering his face. He was suddenly a peroxided version of the Addams Family's Cousin Itt, and for a moment I could feel my stomach clutch. Hair wasn't supposed to do that, not in the '50s. Gene Vincent's was greasy, James Brown's extravagantly pompadoured, Elvis's as carefully coiffed as the 18th green at Augusta. Jerry Lee's hair was a creature from a horror film, a redneck monster that arose, erupted...
...abused himself with pills and booze for most of his adult life. He nearly died in 1981 from a ruptured stomach. He shot his bass player Butch Owens in the chest - accidentally, it is said; Owens survived. But Lewis's family tree is full of untimely deadwood. His elder brother Elmo was run over by a truck when JLL was three. His eldest son Jerry Lee, Jr., died at 19; car crash. Steve Allen Lewis, his son by Myra, died at 5 in a swimming pool. His fourth wife, Jaren Pate, also died in a swimming pool...