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Because in American culture, African-American ancestry is what's called a "master status." So regardless of what he does, if there's any black blood in his heritage, he's considered black. It's what I referred to in The Color Complex, my first book, as the "one-drop theory." You only need one minor element of black blood to be defined as black...
...moving. Exercise and diet are keys to avoiding high blood pressure and heart disease, which together have annual costs to the individual of $606, according to Nationwide's analysis. Investing that sum for 25 years may provide more than...
...there's a knock on Joel and Ethan Coen, the writer-director brothers who otherwise have enjoyed a quarter-century of critical acclaim, it's that they betray a condescension, almost a contempt, for the people they've created. From the lover-killers in the Coens' first feature, Blood Simple, to the babynappers in Raising Arizona and a raft of Minnesotans in Fargo, all manner of desperately striving oafs populate the Coen gallery of film art. The brothers have been very smart about their characters' being very stupid...
...adults were either overweight or obese, and about 30 percent had a body mass index (BMI) of over 30, generally considered the threshold for clinically significant obesity. This epidemic has been associated with a wide variety of high-risk side effects, including ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Medical obesity leads to a 200 to 300 percent increase in the risk of death for middle-aged patients...
...whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home for a day - or at night...