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...nearly 34% of American adults and 17% of kids had emphysema or heart disease, we'd hardly consider it a cause for celebration. But an announcement on Wednesday that that same share of us now qualify as obese - and that a whopping 68% of adults and 32% of kids are at least overweight - is being hailed as encouraging news. Why? Because the numbers aren't even higher...
...each of us to consume 3,800 calories, never mind that we need only about 2,350 for a healthy diet), and there was no place for the needle on the scale to go but up. Now, according to a study just released by the Journal of the American Medical Association, our long national binge may at last be coming to an end. (See the top 10 new diet books...
...reported that America's pastime remained "essentially steroid-free." While Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell would call Oakland slugger Jose Canseco "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids" later that year, Canseco shrugged off the charge; he went on to be named American League MVP. (He would later admit to doping from as early as 1985, saying steroids in late-1980s and 1990s baseball were as common "as a cup of coffee...
...earthquake ought to have been predictable, it was the one that just struck. Haiti sits over two clashing tectonic plates, the North American and the Caribbean, which form what's known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault. Geologists know the fault well and have studied it for decades, and well they should: it has shaken the region violently and repeatedly over history, though yesterday's quake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, is the worst in a century. (See pictures of the devastating earthquake in Haiti...
...modern power elites thrive by forgetting any regrettable past. This amnesia is easy at Harvard, where the legal fiduciaries operate in secret and need not answer for their acts. They are the antipodes of the selfless institutional servants who built Harvard and other great American enterprises, and they bear close watching...