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...populations. But since Florida GOP Senator Mel Martinez last week resigned the seat Crist is running for, the governor now has the rather weird duty of appointing an interim successor to the job he eventually wants. (He insists he won't appoint himself.) His choice could have a big effect on both his 2010 fortunes and whether Republicans as a national party can recover the female and minority voters they lost in key states like Florida last year. (Read a story about Sonia Sotomayor...
...obsessive) movie watcher, I find Netflix a helpful reference source for my never-ending entertainment education. (B-movie serials! BBC miniseries! Bollywood musicals!) But I have misgivings about the service's usefulness, especially compared with that of a real, well-stocked video store, and about the possibly harmful effect that Netflix and other online retail outfits may have on American society...
...North Carolina--restaurants are smoke-free. Patronage has increased, and there's a new, fresh ambiance in all of them. In Rock Hill--one of several areas in the state to pass such a law--the new ordinance went into effect on May 1, though several restaurants had by then already banned smoking. Guillermo Castillo-Feliú, ROCK HILL...
...basic problem is that while it's true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn't necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder...
Together with Shively's findings, says Dr. David Katz, director and co-founder of the Yale Prevention Research Center, the human data suggest a possible cause-and-effect link: stress may promote accumulation of visceral fat, which in turn causes metabolic changes in the body that contribute to heart disease and other health problems...