Word: westing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to find people talking about these diets, because the only thing people like to talk about more than eating is not eating. Jan Rowell, 52, a technical writer in West Linn, Ore., went on the Hellers' diet and knocked off 105 lbs., getting down to 140. "I could have lost this much eating low fat," she says. "But the times I dieted that way before, it was always a struggle. With these diets, you just feel miraculously free of the craving and the drive to eat." The weight-beleaguered Cathy confronted the low-carb diet craze in her comic...
...times the speed of a 56K modem--and cable-modem service is very spotty right now. In Manhattan, for example, I'd have to live between 59th and 67th Street, or in the ultra-hip East Village. Service will arrive in my slightly less hip corner of the West Village in fall 2000, which is way too late to help with my dream of downloading every last music track on MP3.com...
...Commonwealth Ave., Boston (T: B.U. West...
...central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
...European Union, which had been scheduled to discuss economic assistance. And now Washington is stepping up its criticism, urging Russia to solve its conflict with Chechnya through dialogue. "Chechnya threatens to displace Russia's preferred concerns at the top of the agenda in its dealings with the West," says Meier. Even more alarming for the Kremlin is the fact that Washington is casting the conflict in terms quite different from Russia's. While Moscow describes it simply as a "police action against terrorism," President Clinton Thursday referred to Chechnya as instance of ethnic conflict and urged Russia to seek...