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Struggling dieters used to be told they were lazy gluttons with no willpower, but researchers have found that being overweight is as much a result of physiology and heredity as of environment and behavior. To win at staying thin, dieters are learning how to vanquish their own bodies. Overeaters have delightfully ingenious ways of fooling themselves. See HEALTH & FITNESS...
...Asquith had told King Edward, and he now plainly told King George, that the House of Lords must be vanquished and that, short of revolution, only the King could vanquish them by creating, or threatening to create, enough new peers -possibly 500-to form a majority of Their Lordships who would vote to subordinate the House of Lords forever to the House of Commons...
...force that delves deeply into one man’s psyche. Starring Kevin Bacon as Walter, a convict just released from prison after serving a twelve-year sentence for molesting adolescent girls, The Woodsman provides a probing glimpse into the life of a deeply disturbed man struggling to vanquish his demons...
...decades, the best treatment for malaria was an inexpensive medication called chloroquine, first discovered in Germany in 1934 by a researcher working for Bayer. Chloroquine was so effective that it seemed it might vanquish malaria forever. But by the 1970s, the drug had been used so widely to treat all kinds of fevers, not just those caused by malaria, that the malaria parasites became resistant and doctors had to turn to a second medication, called sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SP. But within five years, the parasites started to develop resistance to SP as well. Today resistance to both drugs is rampant...
Your investigation delineated the hideous, Taliban-like attitudes of the insurgents based on the outskirts of Fallujah. Those terrorists must be defeated. They unsettle the serenity of the people of Iraq in particular and global peace in general. Iraqis should cooperate with U.S. forces to vanquish fanatic terrorist groups, because they are stumbling blocks to peace. A. VINOO FABIAN Bangalore, India...