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Boeing says the plane will make passengers breathe easier--literally. Because the 7E7 will mainly be flying long 7,600-mile routes (say, New York to Tokyo), Boeing intends for the 7E7 to be the first airliner with cabin pressure equal to that at 6,000 ft. instead of the current 8,000 ft. That will lessen the dehydration and fatigue many travelers experience...
...FATS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL...
...Italian diets of the 1960s, which contained as much as 40% fat but didn't trigger a lot of heart attacks. Don't assume that what worked for Greeks and Italians 40 years ago will work for you. After all, they typically ate a pound of fruit a day (equal to four medium apples) and little red meat, and many of them got lots of exercise tilling fields and tending livestock. "The Mediterranean diet works well in the Mediterranean," says Yale's Katz. "My concern about it in the U.S. is that people will continue to go to Burger King...
...Department of Public Health. The plaintiffs in Goodridge are seven Massachusetts gay and lesbian couples seeking marriage licenses, denied to them at their local city or town halls. The Federal Marriage Amendment would make it clear that the BGLT people have no legal basis on which to argue for equal access to the institution of marriage...
...everything from health care benefits to estate considerations. Same-sex couples are denied the right to make decisions on a partner’s behalf in cases of medical emergencies, the right to care for a partner who is seriously ill while maintaining career benefits, the right hold property equally and the right to family-related Social security benefits, tax benefits, and other important privileges. By denying equal access to the institution of marriage, the government discriminates against BGLT people and denies them benefits afforded without question to heterosexual individuals...