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...Columbia Journalism Review recently noted that neither candidate has been particularly eager to confront the hard facts of energy policy this election season. No surprise there. But at least one thing’s for sure: Until we get serious about energy independence, American foreign policy in the Middle East will continue to be hamstrung at a time we can least afford...
...series of alphabetically arranged humor columns is the leitmotif of becoming a man: Jacobs somehow turns the effort of reading 33,000 pages into the world's most passive Bildungsroman. The project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing...
...Stacy Ann Mitchell and Teri Mitchell, authors of Livin' Large: African American Sisters Confront Obesity (Hilton), are on a crusade to save black women from what they view as an obesity epidemic. In a lively, encouraging book, the sisters pass along good, color-blind suggestions to women wanting to walk away from a lifetime of weight-related problems. Their honesty and enthusiasm will energize many women to battle the bulge. --By Andrea Sachs
Lynch contested Parker’s point, saying that Pring-Wilson invited the fight because he had already passed Colono and Rodriguez’s car and then went back to confront Colono, who had made a derogatory comment as he walked...
...emotions sometimes tap into a number of thorny issues. Some older parents resent their child's spouse, or they blame the other set of grandparents for pushing the couple to raise the grandkids in their religion. "As we age, we all confront issues we've never faced before," says James Davidson, a sociology professor at Purdue who studies trends among American Catholics. "For many, that leads to reclaiming the religion in which they were raised...