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Research that assessed this same discrepancy in adults identified an energy imbalance of only 30 calories, leading researchers to believe that small dietary changes would be enough to combat the obesity epidemic, according to HSPH researcher and Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology Steven L. Gortmaker...
...lengthy critique of its recommendations. The changes the commission proposed, Biden complained, "are necessary, but not sufficient to achieve the objective most Americans share: to leave Iraq without leaving chaos behind." The commission's proposal to beef up U.S. military trainers embedded in Iraqi units while withdrawing U.S. combat troops "is not, by itself, a plan." There has to be "a sustainable political settlement" as well, said Biden...
...Marcelle Shriver, an office manager and Army mom from Stratford, N.J., first advertised for Silly String donations in her church bulletin after her son called from Ramadi and mentioned how the Marine unit he was working with had passed on their tip to his combat engineers new to Iraq...
...inquiry this week into the way medals have been awarded in Iraq. The Department of Defense may be required to issue new standards or even reopen cases in which medals have been turned down or downgraded. The Pentagon, meanwhile, says it needed its own review to consider how combat--and how the military quantifies heroism--has changed since 9/11. It is considering whether there should be new guidelines set for consistency across the services. The Army, for example, has displayed a stunning generosity in handing out the mid-level Bronze Star medals: it has given out an astonishing...
Perhaps the biggest reason for the scarcity of top medals is the nature of combat in this war, which is so different from that of previous conflicts. The old saying about waiting to see the whites of the enemy's eyes before shooting doesn't apply when that enemy is a quarter of a mile away, looking at you through binoculars to see when to detonate the IED. Yet there are soldiers in Iraq--and Afghanistan--whose valor at least equals that of past generations of Americans. On April 14, 2004, several Marines were manning a checkpoint in western Iraq...