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Critics like Church also say that stigmatizing obese people makes the public health problem worse. “Most obese individuals who try and lose weight are going to fail, and when that happens they tend to give up even trying to be fit,” he said. His research suggests that fitness is more important than fatness in minimizing risk, and that up to 40 percent of obese individuals...
Grace scores best. He's as cute as a button and at first displays about as much personality. Carter is "psyched" by corporate ruthlessness because he doesn't know any better. A trophy wife and a trophy car fail him, and calling a staff meeting on Sunday--a way to fill his empty day off--doesn't do much for his spirit either. This is a guy who needs to recognize his inner dorkiness and turn it into true manliness, and Grace--well, yes--gracefully manages that transition. He's a very winning actor...
...addition to Harvard-specific Faculty reluctance, J-Terms everywhere have been under fire recently because many of them simply fail to strike the right balance. At issue is the level of academic rigor. If it is too high, the goal of reducing student stress—presumably part of the rationale for moving exams before break—will inevitably be undermined. With required J-Term courses, January risks becoming a time when a school full of overachievers feels compelled to rush through remaining requirements. More likely, however, if standards are too low and courses are offered only...
...improve relations with Moscow. In an interview with the Russian daily Izvestiya, Yushchenko last week said that the order to assassinate him came from "those in power." The interview was meant to mollify Russia: Yushchenko stressed that his first foreign visit would be to Moscow. But few could fail to spot the implicit link between those in power in Kiev and in Moscow. Last month Yushchenko focused suspicion on his Sept. 5 dinner with the heads of the Ukrainian security service, the sbu. But that theory faded after experts noted that dioxin needs days or weeks to take effect...
...could not be prosecuted for acts carried out in performing the functions of office. That defense ran out of steam in 1998, thrown out by the House of Lords (the United Kingdom’s highest court of appeal), which ruled rightly that murder, torture and hostage-taking fail to qualify as legitimate functions of a head of state and so are not immune from prosecution. Gen. Pinochet then turned to his poor health as a defense, and finagled permission to return to Chile as a free man because...