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...Procter & Gamble, the networks get to call the shots. For instance, they're insisting that many start-ups pay in advance. "Everything's sold out," says Fred Reynolds, chief financial officer of CBS, which in addition to its TV empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly a billion dollars in ads and promotional...
Turns out most mainstream doctors and professional dietitians. They're attacking these latest fad diets on CNN and making Leeza seem like the McLaughlin Group. Last week 9,000 of them met in Atlanta for a conference of the American Dietetic Association, and even though the organization hadn't scheduled any Atkins talk for its seminars, it blasted low-carb diets as "a nightmare." JoAnn Hattner, a clinical nutritionist at the UCSF Stanford University Medical Center who attended the conference, worries about the high levels of protein and fat in many of these diets, as well as their lack...
...hottest of the low-carb authors, the Hellers, are not medical doctors, though they pose in lab coats on their books and refer to themselves as Dr. Rachael F. Heller and Dr. Richard F. Heller. They're probably just very proud of their Ph.D.s and happen to like hospital wear. The Hellers were propelled to stardom after a guest spot on Oprah in October. Winfrey, an adherent, originally planned to have them back this month, but the Hellers scored such good ratings that they were brought back a few days later. Last week the Hellers had books...
...they call the carbohydrate-craving gene, which is on chromosome number 11, close to the alcoholism gene and the cocaine-addiction gene," she says, before taking a brief talking break to join her husband in a mating dance that involves methodically removing the croutons from their chicken Caesar salad. Though her science may be suspect, her earnestness is not. During the meal, she leans over the table to confide details from her fat, ugly past. "I have stretch marks from my neck to my knees," she says sotto voce. Her husband tells her they are battle scars. They...
...with celery instead of bread," says Betsy, "and the waiter didn't even blink. And Dan O'Toole, a sales executive at the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, shed 50 lbs. while eating fatty food. He says the diet gives him much more energy than he had in the past, though this may just be because he used to weigh...