Allergan, best known for selling Botox, has tried to use its Lap-Band to tap the obesity market.
The 29-year-old Englishman needs only to finish on the podium in Sunday's 71-lap contest to secure the world title.
Some patients choose to loosen their Lap-Bands when they want to enjoy unrestricted eating, like during vacations or holidays.
Dixon won last year's Detroit Grand Prix marred by pot holes and grooves that stopped the race for a little more than 2 hours and shortened the 90-lap race to 70.
Grant Dalton's Club Med won The Race - a non-stop lap of the planet to celebrate the Millennium - in 62 days.
"At the last corner, I saw I was half a tenth to one-tenth slower so we decided to come in and save one lap on those tires -- you never know if you'll have to use it in the race, " Alonso said.
Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.
The Lap-Band can be tightened to create a smaller opening to the stomach or loosened, allowing people to eat unconstricted.
Concrete clad and perennially crowded, Bondi's well-trodden stretch of sand presents a broad slice of modern Sydney life, from the weather-beaten lap swimmers at the Icebergs sea pool, to the Negroni-swilling regulars at North Bondi Italian.
Franchitti's Honda-powered Lola pulled away to a 2.6-second lead at the end of the first lap and he cruised to the eighth win of his career.
"They were telling me to save fuel too but they didn't put a lap time on it - just said you have got to save a bit of fuel, " added Button.
He stresses that the Lap-Band is just a tool to help patients lose weight.
Others will question why you decided to do the Lap-Band procedure rather than the permanent Roux-en-Y gastic bypass.
However, Glock's decision not to change to wet tires slowed him down on the final lap, allowing Hamilton to pass and finish fifth -- enough for the championship.
Hamilton ran wide on his first lap trying to unnecessarily pass then team-mate Fernando Alonso before a freak gearbox problem left him at the back of the field.
For Ricker, who came into the Olympics race leading the World Cup standings, it was a victory lap which helped to avenge the fourth-placed finish she recorded in Turin in 2006.
The move to the one-lap sprint has been planned by her coach Aston Moore and approved by Great Britain's head coach Charles van Commenee, the man who infamously criticised Sotherton for settling for bronze in Athens.
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It was not the only incident involving Schumacher in the race, as the German also went wheel-to-wheel with Kubica when coming out of the pits on lap 13.
McLaren's world champion Lewis Hamilton showed some aggressive driving to post top-three lap times in both sessions.
Benitez rejected any suggestion that the lacklustre post-match lap around Anfield was his farewell to the supporters.
Fernando Alonso produced a stunning lap to grab pole, while team-mate Felipe Massa qualified third fastest behind 2009 champion Jenson Button's McLaren.
Raikkonen is caught out during the twisty finish to the lap to end up in third while Alonso struggles on the harder tyres during his last-gasp effort to end up in fourth.
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And Apple Computer also bucked the trend, thanks to buoyant demand for its new lap-top computer.
Vettel's second fastest lap was in sharp contrast to Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber's performance, with the Australian's car suffering suspected engine failure.
Of course all this turned out to be as phony as the lap-dancer that likes you for you, but that was what we had.
Earlier Sanna had explained that overcast skies and no wind made for a good top speed, but the air temperature, 28 degrees Celsius (83 degrees Fahrenheit), was too warm to sustain it for an entire lap--the engine would overheat.
It's reasonably weighted for the size at two pounds, although it's clear the S1185 is still big enough and heavy enough to be better-suited for a lap or desk.
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Two weeks after the team's double third-lap retirement in Malaysia, Button could not get to grips with the circuit, though he did finish one place ahead of team-mate Takuma Sato.
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