Word: successful
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...everything at once. This one can be tough, especially if you need to lose weight, because your best hope for long-term success requires permanent changes in your diet as well as a boost in your physical activity. But improvements in one area often lead to changes in others. If you're exercising regularly, for example, you're likely to find yourself eating more healthfully as well, so as not to undermine your "investment...
...business when you start out poor and uneducated? And how much more difficult when you're female and black? It is only after putting Madame Walker's accomplishments in the context of the harsh realities she endured and overcame that one can truly appreciate the magnitude of her success. VIVIAN RANDOLPH, PRESIDENT Madame C.J. Walker Enterprises Inc. Indianapolis...
DIED. ANATOLI RYBAKOV, 87, Russian author; in New York City. Rybakov started writing stories part time while driving a truck. His children's book The Dirk, published in 1950, was an immediate success and admired by Stalin. On the other hand, it took years for him to get his epic novel Children of the Arbat published. When the work--which freely discusses Stalin's terrors--finally appeared in 1986, it sold more than 1 million copies in the Soviet Union...
...Venter's success shocked and in some cases angered the scientific world. Watson famously dismissed Venter's sequences as work "any monkey" could do, and when their feud over the issue of patents ended, they were both out of the NIH. Watson retreated to Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to head the research lab there. Venter started talking to investors...
...look more closely at the baby's genetic prospects, doctors must probe the long stretches of DNA along the chromosomes constituting its genes. Thanks to the spectacular success of molecular biologists in identifying specific disease genes, burgeoning U.S. genetic centers now offer DNA tests for 30 or 40 of the more commonly inherited disorders, including cystic fibrosis, susceptibility to some types of breast cancer, fragile X syndrome (after Down, the most common cause of mental retardation), Huntington's disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and various types of degeneration of the brainstem, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. If you include testable variants...