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...weight-loss options for obese pre-adolescents are slim. The two most effective obesity medications on the market, (Orlistat and Meridia) are not approved for children under age 15, and surgical treatments such as gastric bypass are often too risky for kids. That leaves lifestyle- and behavior-modification programs, combined with counseling, which can be effective but unpredictable. But Armstrong's study suggests that there may be unconventional and useful ways, like reading, to teach weight-loss techniques that researchers may not have considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Reading Help Kids Lose Weight? | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...opportunity is there to move past the 30 year-old images of a defiant and frightening revolutionary Iran, and start encouraging cooperative behavior by engaging with Iran as the swiftly-developing nation and regional power it is," says Bernard Hourcade, an Iran specialist at France's National Center for Scientific Research. "The key is direct American involvement in relations, because renewed ties with the U.S. is what Iran wants most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Conventional Wisdom About Iran | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...actual nuclear bomb for deterrence if its security can be ensured in other ways - like through accords with the U.S." Hourcade says. "Meanwhile, Germany and Japan have the capacity to build a bomb within three months and that bothers no one. The idea is get Iran to evolve towards behavior where its possession of materials and knowledge to build a bomb is viewed as equally improbable of those being used to actually construct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Conventional Wisdom About Iran | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...fantasizing about Pilar, but not managing to concentrate long enough to jack off properly”—before bleeding into the violently physical—“[and] one testimony...of the civil registrar in a town called Totonicapán, an idiot whose foolish behavior led to them cutting off with a machete each and every one of his fingers, sliced off he saw his phalanges fall one by one”—before finally ending with the emotionally compelling—“enjoying...so many festive colors, among the most salient...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Senselessness’ Is Full of Sense (and Power) | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...rejigged, locations rebooked and thousands of workers and junior artists rehired. Barjatya also wants the workers to clean up their act: "They're forever showing up late because they've signed on to too many shows. Shouldn't they also be held up to some standard of professional behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bollywood Strike Hits Festival Season | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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