Word: shocker
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When endocrinologist David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Clinic at Boston's Children's Hospital, first met Bernadette and Wayne in May last year, he found that Wayne was 25 lbs. over his ideal body weight. Then came the shocker: on the nape of Wayne's neck was a dark, velvety area, an abnormality neither Bernadette nor Wayne's grandparents, whom he saw daily, had noticed. The skin condition indicated risk for Type 2 diabetes. While Wayne didn't yet have the disease, advised Ludwig, he would need to be monitored. Wayne was so stunned...
...rent a Learjet on my credit card," she says. So it was not surprising that her flair for drama caught the eye of Eric Ober when he was president of the network's news operation. But then Ober left CBS for the Food Network, and it was quite a shocker when he called Finch in the spring of 1999 to lure her there. Insists the mother of three: "I'm not a foodie...
...FRANKS Shocker: G.O.P. N.J. Sen. wannabe gets NYT backing. Could be the Senate upset...
...everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected.) But the shocker was in the, well, civilized nature...
Stewart remembers all too well how the Eagles invaded Ohiri Field last November in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and stunned the Crimson with a 1-0 shocker to end Harvard's season...