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...having enough time away from the job to shop and cook. Often the healthiest foods--vegetables, fruits, whole grains--just aren't available. Many obese children live in what are called nutritional deserts, where there are few nearby supermarkets offering the produce nutritionists recommend. Instead, families may rely on corner delis and bodegas, which tend to stock fattening, processed food, in part for economic reasons: processed foodstuffs are cheaper and can sit on shelves indefinitely. (Between 1989 and 2005 the real price of fruits and vegetables rose 74.6%, while the price of fats fell 26.5%.) Supermarkets, where better choices...
...early summers in the Midwest than El Niño would. The country is now in the middle of a three-year La Niña period. That explains the fierce rain that has battered central Midwestern states like Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. Flooding in Iowa's southeastern corner has been particularly pronounced this year, as it was last summer, mainly because bands of thunderstorms have stubbornly hovered above already-saturated corn and soybean fields. This year, however, the storms have extended farther north, into Wisconsin and Minnesota, and farther south, into Oklahoma and Arkansas...
...seats in the Senate: Alaska, Kentucky (Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's seat), Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico. "Senator Barack Obama's plan to compete in all 50 states is a reflection of the overwhelming desire for change that is transcending state boundaries and has energized voters in every corner of the country," said Maryland Representative Chris Van Hollen, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democratic candidates...
...this way, Harvard can be thought of as the mother of all hedge funds—composed of students who are perpetually hedging their bets. One only wonders, when all is said and done, whether there'll be a corner of their soul that hasn't been hedged into oblivion...
Four years ago, he moved to Los Angeles, helping to open a dispensary and working to recruit activists and local politicians to the cause. Now he does that from a small office just upstairs from his four-room dispensary, which sits next to a Tattoo parlor and around the corner from a Target store. Two beefy security guards watch the door and a smiling receptionist sits next to a case displaying bongs and other paraphernalia. Inside, patients examine samples in glass cases. Some day, Duncan says, this will be as normal as visiting Walgreens. For now, he's less focused...