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...involved in defining overweight and obesity have received funding from the pharmaceutical and weight-loss industries; some manage weight-loss clinics themselves and so have "an economic interest in defining unhealthy weight as broadly as possible and overstating the hazards of obesity." While stressing he's not an obesity expert, David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle, notes the potential for disease mongering among the overweight, and the gold-plated possibilities for drug companies, in a broad perception of an obesity crisis. "There aren't many frontiers left for mass-population treatment drugs," says Henry...
...effort to help Japan become a "normal nation," free to act confidently on the global stage. How you view Abe depends on what you think normal means for Japan. "Abe will stand up and make firm decisions for the Japanese people," says Ichita Yamamoto, an LDP foreign-affairs expert and Abe ally. "But he's not a hard-liner against China or anyone. He's a strategist." A hard-line nationalist or a soft-talking, sympathetic pragmatist; an LDP man to the core or someone who will continue the turn-the-world-upside-down instincts of his mentor Koizumi...
...World editor, Joshua Ramo, was flying down from New York to join us. His flight had been delayed. No matter, says Casta?o: "There's a pasture on the other side of the hill, he can land there in a small plane." We called Ramo in Cartagena. Ramo was an expert pilot, a stunt flier and he enthusiastically agreed to meet us in a cow pasture at 7 a.m. We spent the night in a lodge half an hour's walk down the coast...
...this larger-than-life figure would someday take one too many risks. "He had a long history of doing this kind of thing with dangerous animals; some people do these things and get away with it, and other times your number comes up," says Professor Grahame Webb, a crocodile expert who operates a crocodile park in Darwin. "He had huge experience with crocodiles and snakes and reptiles, but stingrays are quite different." Webb, who supports crocodile conservation but had clashed with Irwin over issues to do with sustainable development, believes Irwin had played a significant role in ensuring crocodiles were...
...team keeps two-thirds of ticket sales and all the money from suites. The Bidwills can bank on an additional $25 million or more in estimated annual profits (on top of the $16.5 million Forbes calculates the team made in 2004), according to Andrew Zimbalist, a sports-business expert and economics professor at Smith College. "I'm sure Bidwill is delighted," says the economist, but he notes that the extra income isn't a competitive advantage. First, other teams have similar extra income streams that new stadiums generate. Second, the Cardinals aren't going to be outspending anyone for talent...