Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buoyed the spirits of millions of such lifelong dieters as Barbara Cady, a former teacher from Fairmont, West Virginia, and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. For if Cady, who has struggled to bring her weight down from 264 lbs. to 195, is any example, the market for such a compound could be huge. "Almost anyone," she wryly observes, "would be sorely tempted to try something that seems to promise nirvana...
...many people struggling mightily to keep their weight in check wouldn't trade places with the mice in Dr. Jeffrey Friedman's laboratory? Two weeks earlier, these roly-poly fur balls weighed three times as much as a mouse should, and they still couldn't stop snacking. After daily injections of a new hormone, however, the tubby rodents suddenly started consuming less food and burning more fat. They shed those excess ounces and trimmed 30% off their bloated size. Even better, their cholesterol readings fell, as did the high glucose levels that made them mildly diabetic. Virtually overnight, it seemed...
Unfortunately, the crazy but true basis of "Operation Dumbo Drop" is the movie's greatest highlight. Much of the rest of the film simply can't carry its own weight...
...stands now, however, only about half of all U.C. students are admitted solely on the basis of grades and test scores. The rest have benefited from a complex equation that awarded points for race or gender, including an ethnic-origin formula so hairsplitting that Mexican Americans were given more weight than other Latinos...
Dole, who turned 72 last week, has a new line for critics who think he's too old to be President. "My cholesterol is lower than Clinton's, and my weight's lower than Clinton's, and my blood pressure," he said in a digression during his welfare speech today. "I'm not going to make health an issue in 1996, no." Clinton took mock offense later today: "My standing pulse rate is much lower than Senator Dole's. But that's really not his fault. I don't have to deal with Phil Gramm everyday," Clinton joked...