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...Today's media landscape only intensifies the pressures. The folks in the owner's suite can't avoid the rants of the bloggers who are calling for the coach's head. "Owners are sensitive to how they are perceived in the marketplace," says veteran agent Lonnie Cooper, who holds the unfortunate distinction of representing all six of the coaches fired this season. (Aspiring coaches, don't duck if you see him - Cooper represented Hall of Famer Chuck Daly and all-time wins leader Lenny Wilkens during their coaching careers; Rivers, whose champion Celtics are an astonishing...
...journal of what they ate for six months. The other half consumed a "brown," or high-fiber, diet rich in cereal fibers including wheat, whole-grain breads, brown rice and potatoes with their skins, and also kept a journal of their food choices. All participants were told to avoid high-glycemic foods (the glycemic index of a food is typically measured as the amount by which a 50 g portion raises blood sugar compared with white bread or pure sugar), such as pancakes, muffins, bagels, French fries, potato chips and cookies...
...high-fiber group experienced a .2 mg/dL drop in their HDL. Studies have shown that raising HDL levels is one way to prevent heart attacks, but it's not clear yet whether the current findings translate to any practical protection against heart disease. (See 9 kid foods to avoid...
...some information (like sex education) is nothing new, we now know how high the real costs of inaction are. When teenage girls were told in a randomized experiment in Kenya that older men are more likely to be HIV-positive than boys, they made better choices and tried to avoid richer but more dangerous partners...
...Even if your planned escalation against the Taliban manages to avoid a replay of the Soviet experience, it will gain you little or nothing in the war against international terror. This is because the Taliban have neither the intent nor the capability to engage in significant terror actions against the United States outside of Afghanistan itself. Our terror target should be Al Qaeda, but they are now of course based inside Pakistan. Only the government of Pakistan is positioned to deal them a mortal blow, and accomplishing that goal should be your priority, but your influence in Pakistan will decline...