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...will recognize you. Just come by yourself and see for yourself what these marriages mean. He did that, and when he came and talked to me, he had a hard time keeping himself together. This isn't just about the couples themselves, and it's so much bigger than the gay agenda. It's about the families and the children of the couples who get married. He came away realizing that his marriage was not going to be affected...
...Parents, however, have it harder; they have to think about the whole child. "If dealing with my daughter's weight issues was as simple as following a few nutritional and exercise guidelines, she wouldn't be overweight," says a Southern California mom. "But the whole thing is so much bigger and messier than that. I don't just care about what she weighs; I care about her growing up healthy and happy and feeling good about herself. And that is where it gets difficult...
...chorus. All of this can hit a child's still developing ego hard. On the whole, overweight children are more likely than healthy-weight kids to be anxious, unhappy and depressed. The science is mixed on which kids suffer the most. One study finds that self-esteem takes a bigger hit in black kids than in white kids; another sees the problem as being worse for Hispanic children. One study finds significantly higher rates of depression in overweight girls; another finds overweight boys taking a huge self-esteem hit when teased by their peers. No matter who feels the most...
...beginning, at least, Washington's program will be microscopic compared with Paris'. Officials are starting with 120 bikes and 10 stations to work out any kinks but hope it will grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that...
...grueling, yearlong primary campaign that cost millions of dollars and captivated the world. But when it comes to picking vice-presidential nominees, only two people on the planet get a vote: John McCain and Barack Obama. Between an explosion of democracy in the spring and an even bigger explosion of self-determination in the fall is a brief interlude of, well, something that Vladimir Putin could probably live with...