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...here's one: Do those laws really protect people and cut crime? A study published in 1995 showed that guns were used defensively about 2.5 million times a year and that in only 5% of cases were defenders harmed after they brandished their gun. But such findings were based on narrow surveys whose scope, upon re-examination by gun-control advocates, could easily have been exaggerated. Thus, discerning the benefits of packing heat has largely remained a matter of conscience, not science...
Part of what makes these books so popular--despite all the exclamation points--is that they give dieters a single key, or "secret," on which to focus their efforts. The conventional prescription for losing weight--step up your exercise, eat more fruits and vegetables and fiber, cut down on saturated fats and calories--is just so hard! How much easier it seems to blame America's epidemic of obesity on "rising insulin levels...
...what does Manson tell her patients about Sugar Busters!? "I think it's overstated. There may be a kernel of truth there, but it's not the miracle cure for obesity." You still have to cut down on saturated fats and excess calories. You still need to exercise (which, by the way, also decreases insulin levels). As a general rule, she adds, "the more processed a food, the less healthy it is. But [the glycemic index] can be carried to an extreme." So, eat your carrots, order up some whole-wheat toast and, for heaven's sake, get off that...
...notion for a Talk of the Town piece, one of those short, graceful, somewhat owlish essays that in those days were told with a royally editorial "we." John McPhee's excellent idea was to collar a geologist friend, visit the rock walls of a recent highway cut not far from Manhattan and relate what the newly naked stone told the geologist...
MOSCOW: A high-profile tax raid by Russia on its leading tax defaulter, Gazprom, was calculated to impress the IMF, says TIME correspondent Andrew Meier. But even if it accomplishes that, the international body is unlikely to cut the big check Russia so desperately needs. "The IMF seems bent on playing high-stakes brinkmanship," says Meier, "extorting vows to slash the budget and strip the fat before it will agree to bail Russia out." But Russia's condition is deteriorating rapidly...