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Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity By Eric A. Finkelstein, Justin G. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen and William Dietz...
...South China Sea - which Vietnam also claims. Within months, police arrested Nguyen on charges of tax evasion - a move widely seen as retaliation. "It's pretty clear that what he was really thrown in jail for was for criticizing China's claim over the Paracels," says Bob Dietz, Asia program coordinator at the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. In December, an appeals court upheld Nguyen's 30-month jail sentence...
...which are predicted to increase from about 20 million today to 30 million by 2010. "Vietnam like China realizes the importance of the Internet if their economy is going to grow and they accept that the more people have broadband access, the better it is for the country," said Dietz. Although the new law prohibits bloggers from discussing politically sensitive subjects, it also states that the government officially encourages Internet use "in order to share and exchange information corresponding to Vietnamese habits, customs and laws, thus, enrich spiritual life and strengthen community cohesion." Luu Vu Hai, chief of the Administration...
...themselves with an array of sedentary electronic pastimes that didn't even exist a generation ago. It shouldn't be surprising that many overfed, underactive kids lose the battle with their weight. "The environmental factors are much more compelling toward obesity than they were 30 years ago," says William Dietz, director of the division of nutrition and physical activity...
...trunkful of classic pop - Rodgers and Hart's"Manhattan," Dietz and Schwartz' "Dancing in the Dark," Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - I found a few surprises: the 1952 "Guess Who I Saw Today," a quietly devastating ballad of Cheever-like yearning and betrayal, and "Pack Up Your Sins," a Berlin number that was new to me, and wittier than the songs of his I know from this period (1922). Just reading some of the lyrics, you can feel the rhythm and the revelry: "Pack up your sins and go to the Devil in Hades...