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...child, I never thought much about my weight. I wasn't served sugary cereals, and I played outside with my friends, as my mother instructed me, till the streetlights came on. Like most children back in the '80s, when only 5% of U.S. kids were overweight, we were trim, maybe even skinny. But the percentage of overweight or obese children has tripled since then, along with all manner of related health risks, from diabetes to heart disease. And now our quick-fix society has come up with a pill for the problem: Xenical, the first obesity drug approved...
...group of lawmakers began pushing for a redesign of the dime, swapping the profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt ’04, the man who led America through the Great Depression and World War II, for Ronald Reagan, the man who led us through the ’80s. The bill has gained 80 co-sponsors so far, including practically the entire House GOP establishment. “Tax-cut and spend” Republicans—who’ve apparently been unsatisfied simply giving away the federal budget to the wealthiest Americans—now want to manipulate...
...Denys Arcand directed a film entitled The Decline of the American Empire, starring the same actors as Rémy and all his friends. With the reintroduction of these characters, Arcand crafts a comparison between the atmosphere among the youth of French Canada in the mid-’80s and that of present...
...80s of Angels seem a lot like today--ideological warfare, sexual politics, a sense of the end times--it's no surprise to Kushner. "We have this idea that we cycle through political moments very rapidly," says Kushner. "But they last a long time. [Angels] was written about something that was alive and kicking, the Reagan counterrevolution to the cultural revolution of the '60s. We're still living in the late '80s...
Christmas is supposed to be a happy?and wildly profitable?time, at least if you're Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, one of the world's leading makers of video games. And during the '80s and '90s, it was a joyous holiday. For most of that time, the Kyoto-based game company could count on at least one of every two game consoles gift-wrapped under Christmas trees to have been manufactured by the firm. And each of those game boxes would generate revenue streams that trickled well into the new year, as customers became addicted to Nintendo-owned franchises...