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After her flameout on stickK, Sisson is working hard to make good on her goal on HealthyWage. With a steady weight loss of 4 lb. in four weeks, she may win the prize money in 2010. But the even greater challenge, Volpp says, will be keeping the weight off. Little...
Since HealthyWage.com launched in October, Sisson and some 5,000 other hopefuls have signed up for the site, which gets corporate sponsors to give a cash reward to obese users who during a specified time period move from an unhealthy to a healthy body mass index (BMI). (This typically translates...
HealthyWage, which makes money through advertising and sponsorships, claims it can save the health care system $1,150 in obesity-related costs for each person who slims down to a healthy BMI. But the challenge is hardly an easy payout. Sisson, who tips the scales at just over 200 lb...
But there are important differences between the two that may result in different outcomes. In Iran, the catalyst was the charge that the authorities had stolen an election that the opposition believes Mousavi won; the Chinese protestors had no history of voting in competitive elections and were mobilized by the...
Al-Qaeda: The attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on an airliner landing in Detroit was a reminder that al-Qaeda is still with us - albeit in radically depleted form. While the war launched in Afghanistan in response to its first attack on U.S. soil remains a tough challenge, the terrorist...