You're going to know that it won't be long before you can eat bingefully again — the weekend will be here in no time — provided you succeed in being a good girl for the five days in between.

But according to Lycophron, the last of the Greek poets, Penelope committed adultery with one of the suitors at the persuasion of the aged Nauplius, who avenged the death of his son Palamedes by enticing almost all the wives of the Greeks into prostitution.

Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.

I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.