Word: brainer
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...latest arrivals and let the matter rest. And Havana, too, may be reluctant to turn the case into another confrontation. If, as it now appears, this is simply a case of a group of consenting adults and their children trying to leave Cuba, then it's a no-brainer in the eyes of the U.S. public. And making a fuss might undo the gains Havana made in U.S. public opinion during the Elian showdown. In other words, don't expect to see this case remain in the headlines next week, much less by turned into a movie...
...friends look up from The Goblet of Fire to report that Harry Potter is an escape: a nice easy read, a page-turner, a no-brainer. But the statistics point to something larger. Fox News reports that 43% of the Harry Potter books sold were bought by people over 14 who were not buying the books for a child...
While most such public-health threats require a bit of epidemiological sleuthing to determine the cause, this one's a no-brainer. In the same period in which the diabetes numbers have been climbing, so have the numbers on many people's scales. In 1991 just 12% of the U.S. population was considered obese; by 1998 it was 20%. Meanwhile, the share of people considered to be at least "overweight" climbed from 44% to 54%. All the added fat appears to make the body steadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to compensate by producing more...
...while on the surface, the vote seems like a no-brainer (not to mention a slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...most of your life, building a nest egg by investing regularly in a 401(k) or Roth IRA or low-cost variable annuity is a no-brainer. You get decades of tax-free growth (returns on stocks have averaged about 11% annually the past few decades), and in the case of a 401(k), you also get an up-front tax deduction. Try getting that in a taxable stock mutual fund at Fidelity or Vanguard. Those of you who get a matching contribution from your employer can count additional blessings...