Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug combination known as "fen-phen" could shut off voracious appetites like magic, and the FDA had just approved a new drug, Redux, that did the same with fewer side effects. Redux would attract hundreds of thousands of new pill poppers within a few months...
...Israeli government is mystified as to how the invasion was discovered. One possibility is that Hizballah or Amal fighters spotted the commandos early on and quickly set up the ambush. But survivors say the assault seemed well planned, lending weight to the theory that the top-secret mission had been compromised, perhaps by a Lebanese collaborator used by Israel in the operation...
...drama. If power corrupts the self, then absolute fame must surely distort it. Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology. Diana, I repeat, was "soft" news. She caused sensations by wearing a party dress or by gaining a kilo of weight. She made headlines with every wave of her hand, every twitch of her eyebrow. This is why her death--her metamorphosis into hard news--feels so savage. Death has enshrined her and frozen her in time. It has also fulfilled her own prophecy. She did have a gift for love...
...Before it was amphetamines, which proved to be addictive, and now it's Redux and fenfluramine, which have been linked to heart trouble. What most overweight people really need, therefore, is a better diet and more exercise." Sound advice. But as long as drug companies continue to tout magic weight-loss solutions, health club memberships and orders at the salad bar aren't about to increase...
...behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor who once championed the disgraced weight-loss drug Redux ? and made a nice little profit in doing so ? came out and said his mea culpas...