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...milk or a thumb-size piece of cheese--translated into 2 lbs. less weight. Calcium, Novotny explains, increases the body's ability to break down fat while reducing the rate of fat synthesis. But calories still matter for weight control; the best way to stay trim is to eat less and exercise more. And remember: low-fat or fat-free dairy products are rich in calcium, as are broccoli, nuts, beans and sardines. --By David Bjerklie
...axed 19% of its employees, but the cuts might not have been so drastic had the company been able to get products like this wireless wonder out the door a little sooner. Designed primarily for communicating--via the Web, e-mail and a built-in cell phone--this thin, trim handheld is a well-focused success. You won't find any multimedia extras, not even an MP3 player, but you will get an unheard-of 10 hours of talk time, a sturdy metal stylus and a crisp 320x320-pixel display. The AT&T service lets you download data...
...Enter Samrat Upadhyay, Kathmandu-born but U.S.-educated, here to trim the verbal overgrowth. Upadhyay, whose first book was a well-regarded collection of short stories called Arresting God in Kathmandu, is that rarity among authors of a subcontinental drift: he is an under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything...
...life in Nice with a personal harem of models. But Matisse dreaded the anarchic power of his desires. His sunlit rooms and elastic nudes are a bulwark against his fears of love and death. No less than Picasso, he made the canvas a defensive perimeter. His genius was to trim the battlements in the camouflage of paradise...
...balance the books. California's Gray Davis is one of the few to back a big tax hike, seeking to plug part of the state's $35 billion deficit. But his Democratic counterparts in Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan are all pledging to hold the line on taxes and trim their budgets instead. In New Mexico, new Democratic Governor Bill Richardson has just signed into law a Reaganesque cut in both income and capital-gains taxes...