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Then again, to give Turkish audiences their credit, maybe Ceylan's previous films were just really, really slow. "Viewers have become used to the fast-paced style of ads, music videos and news shows that jump from scene to scene; this manifests itself in an impatience towards films which tease their stories out slowly," says Firat Yucel, editor of the film magazine Altyazi...
...childhood obesity. Last year the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pledged $500 million over five years to fight the epidemic, with the aim of halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2012. It's obvious that families and officials have begun to understand that the American environment - which promotes fattening fast food and sedentary screen-sucking - needs to be changed to save the country's children...
...year, says that college basketball is an option for Muslim girls who are determined to play. "As colleges here become more aware of our potential, they will make the rules for team uniforms more flexible to accommodate our religion," she says. "It's already happening and change can be fast...
...oddball cast of humans supporting Big Brown makes the horse's rise more Guys and Dolls than Kentucky blue blood. They're fast-talking New Yorkers. Besides Dutrow, an ex-addict who was once so down and out that he lived in a racetrack barn, take Michael Iavarone, 37, Big Brown's majority owner. An ex--Wall Street banker and Long Island native who left the rat race for horse-racing, Iavarone and his partners arranged to buy control of Big Brown for $2.5 million in September, after watching him race once--once--on TV. "We put our balls...
...Some of Clinton's women supporters are angry at what they see as sexist treatment of their candidate. A newly formed political-action committee calling itself WomenCount claimed it had raised $230,000 in four days after running full-page newspaper ads across the country that proclaimed, "Not so fast ... Hillary's voice is OUR voice, and she's speaking...