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...excess associated with people in their 40s and beyond: heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, gallstones, joint breakdown and even brain damage as fluid accumulation inside the skull leads to headaches, vision problems and possibly lower IQs. A staggering 90% of overweight kids already have at least one avoidable risk factor for heart disease, such as high cholesterol or hypertension. Type 2 diabetes is now being diagnosed in teens as young as 15. Health experts warn that the current generation of children may be the first in American history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents'. "The more overweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How America's Children Packed On the Pounds | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...said it man," Jesus barks at one point, trying to intimidate The Dude, "Nobody f---s with the Jesus." It is a line of dialogue still repeated today by giggling college students in their dorms - or waiting in line outside midnight screenings - and it seemed to play a factor in the naming of You Don't Mess with the Zohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Familiar About the Zohan? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Robert’s running for President? A key reason, he told me though he never said it to his brother, was the fear of a second assassination. “We weren’t that far away from ’63, and that was still a factor...

Author: By Adam Clymer | Title: Against the Wind | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...good deal of economic research has looked at the question of why the inflation response to the oil shock has been relatively muted in the current instance.5 One factor, which illustrates my point about the adaptability and flexibility of the U.S. economy, is the pronounced decline in the energy intensity of the economy since the 1970s. Since 1975, the energy required to produce a given amount of output in the United States has fallen by about half.6 This great improvement in energy efficiency was less the result of government programs than of steps taken by households and businesses in response...

Author: By Crimson News Staff | Title: Full Text of Ben Bernanke's Class Day Speech | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...economy. At this point you may be saying to yourself, "Is it too late to book Ali G?" However, anyone who stayed awake through EC 10 understands why this issue is so important.7 As Adam Smith pointed out in 1776, in the long run, more than any other factor, the productivity of the workforce determines a nation's standard of living...

Author: By Crimson News Staff | Title: Full Text of Ben Bernanke's Class Day Speech | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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