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...they do lose weight. Melva Williams, president of Melva Natural Products, a health-food wholesaler in Worth, III, says she has lost 10 Ibs. with the help of starch blockers, without getting sick and without reducing her caloric intake. "It started working with me almost immediately," she claims. "Each tablet inhibits the digestion of 150 grams of starch, which equals 600 calories. I'm very satisfied with meals, and I don't feel hungry in between...
...fanciful choices of many other grieving pet owners around the U.S. Kitty's resting place is becoming more and more elaborate. At Paw Print Gardens in Chicago, sealable cat caskets range from $39 to $139, and granite grave markers begin at $79, while top-of-the-line custom tablet markers go for more than...
...Ohio-based Marathon, U.S. Steel's offer amounted to a giant Rolaids tablet spelling relief. For the past three weeks, Marathon has been resisting a takeover bid by Mobil Corp., feeling that Mobil was offering far less for Marathon's shares than they were worth. The firm has run full-page newspaper ads in protest and hauled Mobil into court to block the takeover move. Mobil had bid $85 a share for 40 million shares, 67% of the total, and proposed some other trimmings as well, pushing its offer to $5.1 billion. But that was nowhere near...
...cryptic tablets tumbled thousands of names, places, deals and directives, accounts of taxes paid, textiles traded and treaties sealed. One tablet listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...
...metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term...