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Just in time for any New Year's weight-loss resolutions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week announced its intention to ban dietary supplements that contain any of six stimulants collectively known as ephedra alkaloids. Folks who don't mind risking their health in a desperate attempt to cut a few pounds (you know who you are) may be upset, but the rest of us should be pleased. The FDA has received more than 16,000 reports of complications--ranging from dizziness to strokes--that may have been triggered by the supplement, and it has linked ephedra...
...been trying to restrict ephedra supplements for the past six years, only to be beaten back by industry and political pressure. Thanks to the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, the FDA has to go through all sorts of legal hoops to restrict dangerous supplements and can act only after they have gone on the market. By contrast, the agency carefully vets prescription drugs long before they ever reach consumers...
...GROUPS. Princeton professor Elaine Pagels won a National Book Award for her 1979 essay The Gnostic Gospels, which explored those alternative interpretations of the Christ story. The book was a surprise best seller, and three titles later, study groups at churches around the country are using Pagels' works to supplement more traditional Bible studies...
...perils of fictional characters' coming to life. Eragon, by Paolini, who is only 19, is a fast-paced adventure tale that takes place in a fully realized alternate universe inhabited by a stew of dragons, swords and dark forces. By next year, you'll no doubt be able to supplement the literary gifts with Eragon action-figure stocking stuffers...
...once occasioned mainly by such events as reunions or bachelor parties. Now travelers invent their own occasions, whether it's an all-girls outing, a male-bonding trip or a multifamily jaunt. Singles say they prefer to travel with pals, without the baggage of loneliness and the extra single-supplement charges for traveling alone. But even married couples cite the urge to get away with the gang. "People assume those who travel with friends are single, but that's not the case anymore," says Cathy Keefe of the Travel Industry Association of America...