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...also, it was the scale of it. It was just the fact that they were talking about collecting all of this information - and this really was the idea - collecting everything that they could get their hands...
...fact of his history. He will forever be associated with Iran-Contra, and that means he will forever be associated with public deception. I don't think that he was ever going to be a credible spokesperson for a project with this kind of creepy ambition, if I can call it that. So it was sort of doomed from the start...
Obesity used to be seen as a problem only for Americans, with their love of fast food and aversion to exercise. But over the past two decades, Europe's waistlines have been steadily expanding too. In fact, from 1990 to 2006, obesity levels in Europe tripled, according to statistics from the World Health Organization. Although they've yet to catch up with the 32% obesity rate in the U.S., Europeans have nothing to be complacent about. In Italy, nearly 10% of people are considered obese, and in the U.K., the figure is more than 24%, according to the latest...
...Dave McCullough, a spokesman for the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC), says that on average, Europeans have about a half hour each week to do all their food shopping. "The fact is that a lot of people do not have time to make decisions on what they are buying," he says. "A housewife out with her three kids wants to make a quick decision while rushing through the supermarket aisles and does not have time for detailed comparison. When we clearly have an obesity epidemic spreading across Europe and when consumers clearly want to make healthier choices about their diet...
...Slota, is known for his xenophobic slurs, which are often aimed at the country's ethnic Hungarians. But Slota maintains that he doesn't just want to instill more patriotism among the Hungarian minority -he wants Slovaks to have more pride in their country, too. (Never mind the fact that his own knowledge of the anthem proved spotty in an interview last week when he confused some of the words and got the author wrong.) "The children's relationship to their nation, to their homeland is not on a decent level," Slota tells TIME. "In America, the schoolchildren parade into...