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...game. Buoyed by the support - 155 voted in favor of the resolution, and only five against - FIFA plans to explore the idea further with the hope of imposing the limits by 2012. "There is a growing sporting and economic inequality" between clubs, said Sepp Blatter, FIFA's president, taking aim at wealthy European teams able to cherry pick from the world's best talent...
...Massachusetts, where the town of Somerville launched a community-wide intervention to improve the diet and fitness of children, state and local governments have recognized and begun addressing childhood obesity. Last year the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pledged $500 million over five years to fight the epidemic, with the aim of halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2012. It's obvious that families and officials have begun to understand that the American environment - which promotes fattening fast food and sedentary screen-sucking - needs to be changed to save the country's children...
Expect creative menus and bar options at coming weddings as more couples aim to shave their bill; after all, food and drinks usually account for the biggest chunk of costs. More than 6 in 10 wedding professionals say their clients are buying less expensive meals than in the past. "As silly as it sounds, go with the chicken," says Daniel Briones, NACE president and director of catering at the Four Seasons Philadelphia. Shelley Harrington, who married Scott Barber on May 10 in Rochester, Mich., opted for chicken with Boursin cheese in a phyllo-dough wrapping plus a fish option. Both...
...plans aim to scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food. They will further break the link between direct payments and production, allowing farmers to better follow market signals. A progressive reduction in farm subsidies will be accompanied by shifting the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms. And the plans call for an end to the so-called set-aside rules that requiring some land to be kept out of production...
...good will with Webb's staff. "At this point we were really not in the position to negotiate," said Jess Smith, a spokeswoman for Webb. "We're sticking to our guns that our bill will take care of our vets; incentivizing long-term military service is not the top aim of this bill...