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...every expert who is worried that the last thing fat people need is one more excuse not to get thin, there are hints that the problem is in fact more nuanced than that. One is a study that comes from the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas. Since the 1970s doctors there have been amassing a database of the more than 80,000 patients who have passed through their doors to be weighed, measured, pinched, blood-tested and to run on treadmills while their vital signs are monitored. Drawing on that rich lode of data, the institute concluded that overweight...
Executives at Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the planning firm that prepared the report, were quick to emphasize that the proposals remained at a conceptual level and that individual buildings had not been designed...
Currently, cars and pedestrians cross the busy Larz Anderson bridge connecting John F. Kennedy and North Harvard Streets. Pedestrians can also use the Weeks Footbridge to the east. But that bridge, built in 1924, fails to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to McGregor, Cooper, Robertson’s managing partner...
...anonymous sources, news organizations aren't likely to stop using them anytime soon. There are too many people with essential information who are afraid to go public, sometimes out of fear of losing their jobs. (At present, TIME is defending in the courts the refusal of its correspondent Matthew Cooper to disclose one of his sources to a federal grand jury.) But many in the media, amid periodic waves of criticism, are re-examining how often to use unnamed sources. Some publications now are more aggressive about getting sources to agree to be identified. After the fall of USA Today...
David McGregor, the managing partner of Cooper, Robertson & Partners did not return several calls for comment...