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...chew food exactly 32 times before spitting it out completely. (Pleasant dinner guests, Fletcher's acolytes were not.) In 1928 dieters could choose between eating only meat and fat (sometimes in trimmings bought directly from the butcher) on the Inuit diet, or skim milk and bananas on Dr. George Harrop's aptly named bananas-and-skim-milk diet. As late as the 1960s, Dr. Herman Taller was touting the Calories Don't Count diet, which held that the quantity of food consumed was unimportant provided that you chased it with vegetable...
...solar market to grow from $13 billion to $32 billion by 2012, with thin film expanding 45% a year. Masdar, the clean-energy arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, just announced that it will invest $2 billion in thin film. "Crystalline silicon has had its day," says Peter Harrop, chairman of the London-based research firm IDTechEx. "These new technologies will be taking over...
...Such difficulties failed to deter 7,000 new owners last year, 80% of them in Britain. Aga-Rayburn's managing director Geoff Harrop wants to see a push for the American market, where some 10,000 Agas already have homes and around 400 are sold every year. France and the Netherlands are also ripe for expansion. "The Group has declared a target of an annual 10,000 sales within two years," he says. The passion for minimalist kitchens is peaking in Britain, according to Homes & Gardens editor Matthew Line. It's good news for the Aga, but whatever the fashion...
...orchestra had extended a similar musical promise with its sparkling performance of the overture. The music-making was superb from the outset: members of the chorus blended well with each other and sang fortissimo without overwhelming Christina Harrop's slight Giannetta. Gregory Turay turned Nemorino's first tenor solo into a great vocal cadenza. Soprano Lisa Saffer's Adina soon demonstrated that her coloratura could amply meet the demands of the bel canto style...
After prolonged controversy, Harrop settled his case with the city. Light skipped his hearings and moved to California...