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...press liked Wellstone too. CNN Political Analyst Bill Schneider said Saturday that Wellstone was “the most authentic voice of the 60s left in American politics. Clinton came out of that same 60s tradition but was willing to trim and compromise in order to move ahead...
...McNuggets and Filet-O-Fish--better for the hearts of the 46 million customers who eat there every day, but it will not turn any of those dishes into health foods. Fries cooked in the new oil will have precisely the same caloric content and will do nothing to trim America's growing waistline. So eat fries from time to time if you must, but don't supersize them. Better still, try the salads...
Hilary has always been one of the most frequent offenders. She began life as "the miracle baby"--Ginny tried for nearly a decade to get pregnant and finally succeeded shortly after her 36th birthday. Hilary is tall for her age and trim, with fair, freckled skin and a froth of red curls so striking that strangers stop her on the street for her autograph, insisting that she must be an actress from a Broadway production of Annie. This year, as in every other, she earned straight A's. She competes in five sports (ranking statewide in swimming), plays the piano...
...Kerry Sieger were a stone age hunter-gatherer instead of a 21st century molecular biologist, chances are she would have the taut, trim body of her dreams. In college, however, Sieger underwent such a dramatic weight gain that, ever since, she has been a size 6 butterfly struggling to emerge from a chrysalis of size 20 clothes. Over the years, she has tried a succession of diets--the Scarsdale diet, the Nutri/System diet, the Michael Thurmond 6-Week Body Makeover diet, even the cabbage-soup diet--but the pounds she has repeatedly lost have relentlessly crept back...
After being pummeled by the discounters, the major carriers might be expected to make a better effort to compete on price. And at least initially--as hurting airlines do anything to lure passengers on board and bankrupt carriers have more flexibility to trim costs--that may be the case. But in the long run, as the major carriers further cut capacity and eventually consolidate, it's likely that most domestic fares--which declined on average almost 10% in June and are now near 15-year lows--will start to inch their way back up. One reason is that in order...