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...became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just what Hollywood needed and rarely got: somebody whose films weren't about teenagers but inside them. Almost never before had kids looking for wish fulfillment in the dark found movies that shed a little light on their own lives...
...healthy size. "About 40% of parents of obese children ages 6 to 11 perceived their children's weight status to be 'about the right weight,'" says Matthew Davis, the University of Michigan pediatrician who directed the poll. A further 8% believed their child was actually underweight. "It's almost as if parents don't know what obese looks like in that school-age group," Davis says...
...three balanced, portion-controlled meals a day. Cohn came along as staff, the "Camp Mom." "There's nothing easy about it, confronting [a weight problem], getting over the stigma of being here," she says. But after five weeks of the camp's regimen - approved by doctors - Molly has lost almost 15 lb. The girl smiles. "I think when I get home," Molly says, "I'll eat in moderation...
Spotify has been gaining popularity in Europe since its launch in 2006. The peer-to-peer program, which lets users share music from their own collections with other users, is considered one of the top music-streaming sites thanks to its huge library of songs, which play with almost zero buffering delay (that annoying choppiness that can make streaming songs - or video or TV shows - particularly frustrating). Add to that the fact that Spotify's basic service is free - advertising pays for artists' royalties - and it's easy to see where it gets its approximately 6 million users...
...problem with health insurance," says Karen Pollitz, a health-policy expert who has studied the shortfalls of HIPAA, "is it's really complicated and fixing it part way almost never works." Some skeptics of the insurers' support this go-round believe that's what the industry is counting on, even if its advocates and defenders insist that's just what they are working to avoid...