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...Prevention report that obesity, which afflicts 30 percent of American adults, increases the risk of diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Opponents say that fat studies is a way of masking that epidemic by making it a part of social discourse. And though fat studies has begun to enter classrooms, the area still has a long way to go before becoming mainstream. Even professors are not yet aware of its presence. “I didn’t know that such a world existed at all, although I was aware of debates in the intellectual journals...
Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...
...Mahmoud's death has ignited long-simmering tensions between Shi'ite and Sunni communities, which have even begun to eclipse Lebanon's more familiar Christian-Muslim divide and instead parallels the sectarian schism throughout the Middle East that has been reopened by the conflict in Iraq...
...major works has invaded my life and become my passion. One unfortunate side effect is my complete inability to consider the future, much like many of Faulkner’s characters. Emulating Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, I’ve destroyed my watch and begun wandering through Cambridge, searching for my lost youth. Please understand that while my level of understanding grows deeper each day, my connection to these texts is tenuous at best, and cannot be disturbed by such time-anchored requirements like “chapter deadlines.” I’m sure...
...talk of withdrawal has gathered momentum in recent weeks, some Sunni groups dedicated to fighting U.S. troops have already begun to recalibrate their gunsights. One of the largest Sunni insurgent groups, Islamic Army, dramatically changed course last week and called on its followers to wage a "battle of destiny" against Shi'ites for control of Baghdad. Only a year ago, the studiously nationalistic and nonsectarian group vehemently opposed al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's call for a holy war against Iraqi Shi'ites...