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...Making things worse for Negron is the fact that Mahoney, 50, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is the kind of conservative Democrat whom many Republicans in the G.O.P.-leaning 16th District, which includes Palm Beach and the state's eastern Treasure Coast, can stomach more comfortably in the voting booth. Mahoney, in fact, was himself a Republican until he decided to challenge Foley last year. Born in New Jersey and raised an Irish Catholic Democrat, he became a Reagan Republican in the 1980s; his platform is heavy on economic-related issues like the growing financial struggles of small businesses...
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...
...enough to make you tremble, but are things really so bad? In the new and burgeoning field of obesity research, there was nothing unusual about Booth's address last month. In Australia and New Zealand, as in many Western countries, to open a newspaper or switch on the T.V. is to be assailed by another dire take on what the World Health Organization calls the "worldwide epidemic" of obesity. Clearly, it isn't just the more sensationalist elements of the media but a host of research centers and health bodies that have categorized the trend toward increasing body mass...
...typical media portrayal of today's child is of a fatso slumped in front of a video game, guzzling soft drink and not faintly inclined to venture outside to kick a ball or climb a tree. But this perception buckles under scrutiny. From the SPANS school survey, Michael Booth reports that while few pupils walk to school any more and cycling there has all but vanished, a huge majority are performing the recommended one hour a day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Moreover, both girls and boys are much more active than their counterparts of 1985 and 1997. Booth...
...What's happened, most doctors would say, is that better treatment, broader use of drugs for prevention, as well as less cigarette smoking, mean that despite rising average weight, fewer people are dying from cardiovascular disease. This is small cause for celebration, says Sydney University's Booth. "People who are overweight are more likely to suffer serious, debilitating, chronic diseases before they actually die. We've become quite good at keeping people alive in the presence of these diseases, but they have a really poor life in the meantime, and that doesn't show up in studies like Flegal...