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...menus and vending-machine snacks. In June the New York City Department of Education announced it would ban candy and soda from school vending machines and would reduce the fat content in cafeteria meals. Kelly Brownell, the director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders and the author of a forthcoming book on the obesity crisis, Food Fight, worries that the public's perception of money-hungry lawyers trying to control food choice through the courts may cause a backlash against these and more measured public-health initiatives...
...actively seeking them out after decades apart. "People go to reunions to find an old flame. They use Classmates.com to look up the one that got away or someone they always had a crush on," says Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author of Finding Your Perfect Match (Perigee). "They bump into each other and find a reconnection easy and immediate. Although there are no numbers, anecdotally it seems quite common that people are connecting with old loves...
...believe they've been there and done that 20 or 30 years ago. "Our hearts are open when we're young, and the person we knew then can make a big impression. It's understandable that people want to go back to that experience," explains Doug Moseley, the co-author with his wife Naomi Moseley of Making Your Second Marriage a First-Class Success (Three Rivers Press). But, says Naomi, "it can be just as difficult to meet an old beau as a new person. Even though you have those memories, you have to realize...
...same weekend that UVA's production of The Vagina Monologues opened in February 2005, NeW hosted a lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers, a vocal critic of feminism and author of The War Against Boys. Her lecture, "Sex, Lies and The Vagina Monologues" drew a standing-room only audience and sparked a weeklong debate in the student newspaper...
Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert is the author of Stumbling on Happiness. To read an interview, go to time.com/gilbert