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Chickens can't fly well anyway, so why not get rid of their wings and replace them with meatier, tastier legs? That's not really why a group of scientists is tinkering with chicken limbs -- the real answer is that their experiments may eventually help prevent human limb deformities. And yet the successful research raises a possibility - monstrous to some, perhaps - tempting to others...
First there was Dolly the Scottish sheep. Then, last July, came several litters of cloned mice. Now scientists at Japan's Kinki University have produced something even bigger and a good deal tastier: eight identical calves cloned from a single...
...from mail-order houses, websites and Amway distributors who rattle their pillboxes door to door. Preparations made from herbs--from aloe for regularity to valerian for restful sleep--are the hottest of all, with some 60 million Americans now swallowing doses regularly. And for those who crave a tastier fix, there are new so-called functional foods--concoctions such as fruit juice laced with ginseng, or corn chips with kava, the one claiming to perk you up and the other to calm you down...
Romano's gourmet smorgasbord has mouth-watering numbers too. EatZi's has sales per sq. ft. of $1,500, easily outdistancing the $200 at regular grocery stores. Even tastier are EatZi's profit margins. At 12% to 15% of sales, they are more than four times the 2% to 3% that most grocers bag. Having tinkered with the concept for a couple of years, Romano is taking EatZi's national. Already in Dallas and Houston, EatZi's opened last month in Atlanta and will stock shelves in Westbury, N.Y., and Manhattan by the end of this year. "Women come...
...contradict the prevailing orthodoxy of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. He contends that an excess of carbs forces the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...