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Could Arkansas - land of rich barbecue, fried chicken and a famously overindulgent former President - turn out to be a rare bright spot in America's battle against child obesity? That was the proud claim made in a new report released on Wednesday by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and Governor Mike Huckabee, who is himself renown for losing 110 lbs. while in office...
...With funding that mostly likely comes from Iran, Hizballah appears to be in a hurry to make good on its promises. The party has set up what amount to claim centers in school buildings throughout the areas that have been heavily damaged - south Beirut, southern Lebanon, the Bekkaa Valley. And officials say there are going to begin handing out cash within 48 hours...
...resident was an owner or renter, and phone numbers of those who could afford phones. All a resident has to do is show up at the school -with or without identification, deeds, or leases -ˇ and a Hizballah representative assigned to their building checks to make sure that their claim was legitimate. Very few people try to make fraudulent claims, according to Munir. "People are very cooperative," he said. "We know who everyone is, and they trust us not to cheat them...
...battle to win the hearts and minds of Lebanese, or at least of Shi'a Muslim Lebanese. "Hassan Nasrallah has said he will help us, so he does what he says," said a woman as she left the Haret Hreik High School, where she had come to register her claim. "Hassan Nasrallah carries the whole country on his robes...
...British Airways and other British carriers, including Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, are blaming some of the problems, including more than a thousand canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round...