Allison, has faced so many ethical questions about the objectivity of his obesity research that ABC News did an investigative story on him in 2011.

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Some mutts are not so lucky -- Quest joins actress Allison Janney at the New Leash On Life dog rescue center, where the doe-eyed inmates wait for adoption.

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Allison says yes, and his willingness to be so candid about the various players underscores what an important read his book is.

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About 30 have sold so far, and the company's director of marketing and communications, Allison Sojka, reckons that medical centers have already helped rehabilitate somewhere between 500 and 1, 000 patients.

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And Allison Fine was right: the nature of their labor and the changing structure of how so many of us work today provides fuel and opportunity to that movement.

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They did so successfully with "Bethany" and "Jackie, " and now comes "Collapse, " playwright Allison Moore's trenchant comedy set in the beginning of the 2009 global economic collapse.

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