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...liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love." KATIE COURIC, who debuts as CBS Evening News anchor next week, after an in-house magazine ran a retouched photo that made her appear thinner...
...intersection of Italian and Chinese food in Hong Kong, was interesting, but the notion that Hong Kong kids are "pestering their parents for 'Italian wontons' (ravioli)" seems to have dropped from the sky. People in Hong Kong are more accustomed to eating Cantonese fresh shrimp dumplings, which have a thinner wrap than the Italian version. The reference to the "shared use of thick tomato sauce as the basis of many dishes" in Italian and Chinese cuisine was also puzzling. Go to any Cantonese restaurant, and you will be hard-pressed to find a dish whose sauce is based on ketchup...
...anyone who has drunk seriously with Japanese, Indian, South Korean or Taiwanese executives can aver, whisky doesn't merely enjoy a healthy market across large swathes of Asia - it boasts armies[an error occurred while processing this directive] of well-informed connoisseurs. Head south, however, and aficionados are thinner on the ground. The Islamic countries of Malaysia and Indonesia are hardly big-drinking nations (and when they do imbibe, the preferred drinks tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different...
...Coumadin is the "blood thinner" we use when you've had a stroke, heart valve replacement or blood clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then...
History says that when too much money chases the same asset class, things end badly. As the bids go higher and the deals get thinner, private companies carry ever greater debt. Four years ago, 41% of the payment for the average buyout came from equity and the rest from debt. Today the average equity level is down to 35%, according to S&P. That is still a far cry from the 7% equity levels of the original buyout craze, but the trend is nonetheless an indicator that the industry is starting to overheat. "That often happens toward...