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...military can change only so much. It can't afford, for example, to compromise on health and fitness. Yet an internal report leaked last year noted that young Australians were getting fatter and that their "high incidence of nonmedical drug use ... severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates." The profession of arms will always demand commitment and sacrifice, unpopular concepts in an affluent and individualistic society. adf research has found that young people's biggest concerns about the military are being away from home for long periods (the largely stay-at-home Air Force has less trouble recruiting than...
Okrent said he still plays rotisserie baseball with a group of 11 friends, some of whom were part of its inaugural season in 1980. “We’re all a lot older and fatter,” Okrent said...
...Banks and credit-card companies must follow new federal guidelines from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that require minimum payments to cover interest and fees plus at least 1% of the principal. For the 7% of consumers who pay only the minimum, that will mean writing fatter checks. But what if you're sick of the whole plastic ride and really want to put a serious dent in your debt? Here's how to get started...
...fatter have left the Mouse House. In their wake they leave a filthy trail of Lays potato chip bags, Diet Coke cans, and enough Oscar gold to fund another CIA-backed military coup in Guatemala.Going into the details (a long, absurd capitalist saga) of the Weinstein brothers’ departure from Disney is useless at this point. Essentially, the nightmare couldn’t have lasted much longer. Money-grubbing ex-nerd testosterone receptacles like Michael Eisner were fated to have a rocky relationship with Bob & Harvey Weinstein. Harvey yelled at or sat on people who irritated him too much...
...UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), also sitting on a fatter wallet, was decreasingly effective in planning meaningful social events for the college community. The year started off well, with the CLC landing Bob Dylan for a fall concert. But last winter’s Jim Breuer comedy show and this semester’s Springfest event were underwhelming and underattended. While we continue to support the basic mission of the CLC to plan campus-wide social events, we implore the CLC to put its collective ear to the ground to try to figure out what kinds...