Oprah digs into food; PM focuses on fusion

By Dan Kincaid
The Arizona Republic

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 10 2004 1:17 p.m. MDT

Summary

Here are some reviews of new magazines on the stands.

Here are some reviews of new magazines on the stands:

O: The Oprah Magazine — In this issue of her lifestyle magazine, Oprah Winfrey's mission is to help you eat right and get (and stay) slim. Although everyone, you'll read, can lose weight temporarily, the trick is keeping it off: Nearly 80 percent of dieters soon regain their shed pounds. How do the happy 20 percent remain trim? In a color-coded package of articles, four of these weight-loss winners tell how they do it. A sidebar spells out 10 rules, including always eating breakfast and following the same diet consistently. You'll also read about the biology of hunger and the facts about fish (is it healthful or a delivery system for mercury, PCBs and other toxic chemicals?); using hypnosis to control appetite. Check out, too, Oprah's interview of Bill Clinton.
Popular Mechanics — The cover illustration of this issue is scary and sensationalistic: The Empire State Building collapses as a nuclear weapon explodes in the heart of Manhattan. It directs you to an article saying that the Department of Energy has ordered a review of research on cold fusion, the notion that nuclear energy can be produced by using inexpensive "tabletop" apparatus. Most of the physics community until recently dismissed cold fusion as a hoax or the result of sloppy research. PM suggests that the DOE has become interested in cold fusion because it has run into problems in a new process for making tritium, a crucial ingredient in H-bombs, and cold-fusion experiments have shown promise as a way of producing it. The article concludes ominously by saying that if cold fusion becomes a reality, then it will become a cheap source of nuclear power not only for governments but also for terrorists; hence the cover picture. We hope not.

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