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...diabetes nurse-educator, I am gravely concerned about Yum Brands' impact on global health [Jan. 28]. On a recent tour of hospitals in China with a delegation from the American Association of Diabetes Educators, I saw the detrimental results of fast food's rise in overseas markets. As the industry pushes its high-fat, high-cholesterol, meat-based foods, rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke are skyrocketing. Obesity rates have tripled over the past 20 years in countries that have adopted the American diet, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2007. Rates...
...inbounds play under the basket with three seconds left. The pass floated long, and—fittingly—Tay scooped it up and ran the clock out before throwing the ball triumphantly in the air. “[I was thinking] ‘Sprint as fast as you can and run away from the girl,’” Tay said of her game-clinching steal. The Quakers put together their finest game of the season, paced by hot perimeter shooting from Biemer and guard Kim Adams. Biemer and Adams combined for five three pointers...
...Princeton—one of the teams expected to make a serious run at Harvard’s league title—drops to 1-2. Early on, the game was a showcase of both teams’ offensive potency: the first six minutes saw hot shooting and a fast pace on both ends as the Crimson jumped out to a 17-9 lead on 7-for-10 shooting. But the Tigers kept the game close with some accurate shooting of their own, getting timely points from guard Caitlin O’Neill (nine points). A jumper from senior Meagan...
...moment, Romney is still playing it safe, carefully avoiding any hard-and-fast predictions that could paint him into a corner, as he runs his body to a breaking point. "This is the Super Bowl of politics," he said Sunday in St. Louis of the coming election day. "And for old guys like me, politics is kind of sport...
Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood of northwestern Tokyo's Toshima Ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the pace of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (based on the name of a district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses...