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...agree that Americans need to increase their level of activity. On this there is a broad consensus. We saw food industry groups such as Pepsi and McDonald?s supporting activity programs, giving away step counters, etc. We?ve heard about government efforts: HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson?s ?Small Steps? idea to promote activity and the very entertaining public service ads his department has created, showing lost love handles near the staircase and lost double-chins in the vegetable aisle. We heard about the CDC?s VERB campaign promoting activity for kids and were moved by the sentiments of Lynn Swann...
...There are precious few Vietnam veterans in the three branches of the federal government. That absence permeates through all elements of our society from the faculty in Harvard University (student deferments personified thirty-five years after) to business, non profits, foundations, the legal profession, physicians, etc...
After their recent flour attack on Tony Blair, Fathers 4 Justice will combine their love of baking supplies with their love of superheros—scaling bridges as Spiderman, etc.—and take it up a notch. Yeah, we’re talking cupcakes, the Green Hornet and Prince Charles...
...poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there...
This focus on the little things tends to lose site of the big picture, though. Over the course of his standing in the shower, not feeding the cat, falling off his bike, etc. we learn that Kochalka and his wife are trying to have a baby. Whatever sort of important discussions they may have had about this are only cursorily touched on in the "diary." Even the moment they learn she is pregnant goes unrecorded. We have to infer it from a strip about her morning sickness. But the delights of the book are in Kochalka's endearingly quirky personality...