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...were people so surprised when the New England Journal of Medicine reported that obesity is a contagion you catch from your friends? The line from Don Quixote, "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art," suggests that friends have long been what your mother called a "bad influence...
...rather, a bad influenza. And it isn't just the "fat flu" you can catch from friends. Good friends enable all manner of bad habits, even when they're doing nothing at all. Around friends, we slip back into regional accents we've spent years trying to exorcise--redneck recidivism--or embroider our speech with the kind of epic profanity more common to 19th century lobstermen. (That's the bad habit I revert to around my friends, all of whom swear like Friars Club roastmasters...
...between Northern liberals and Southern moderates that has befuddled the Democrats since... well, since Ted Kennedy challenged the incumbent President, Jimmy Carter, in 1980. But it's also a consequence of the smug ideological xenophobia that currently afflicts activists in both parties-although, in fairness, the Democrats are playing catch-up to the wing-nut avidity cultivated by Karl Rove as a conscious governing strategy in the Republican Party. The Republicans don't even have a DLC equivalent...
...felt amazing,” he said. “The next morning, it felt a little harder—like I forced my stroke. It was the same thing at finals; the guy next to me [Margalis] went out really fast, and I tried to catch up. I just died on last lap—I expended my energy too soon...
...mill. The farmers will also diversify into other tropical export products. And as more sections of the road from Tabora to the coast get paved, the prospects for increased exports will be even brighter. With fertilizers, bed nets and roads, even remote villages of Africa will be able to catch the wind of expanding world markets...