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USAGE South L.A. has the highest concentration of fast-food joints in the city, and the area has fewer grocery stores and restaurants than any other neighborhood. About 30% of adults in the low-income area are obese, almost 10% more than the national average. The two-year moratorium on fast food will be presented to the city council this fall, but opponents argue that for many, fast food isn't simply a convenience; it's the only choice...
...major benefit of a mesh network over an infrastructure network is that it is cheaper since it requires fewer access points and therefore less wiring and installation...
Freedom wasn't part of the description, and indeed Russia is headed in the opposite direction domestically, with fewer voices being heard. Even the illusion of choice, which the Kremlin had carefully managed in the 2004 elections, is crumbling. The upcoming elections (the parliament in the fall, the President in the spring) are essentially over already - it's Putin's party by a landslide - but the big question in Moscow these days is who will follow Putin as President. Unlike in Washington, there are no unauthorized leaks. There are few off-the-record chats. So when Putin named a little...
...event, asked the panelists—Kennedy School professors Graham T. Allison, Linda J. Bilmes, Tad J. Oelstrom, Sarah Sewall, and former Rep. Clay Shaw (D-Fla.)—how many troops they each expected the next president to inherit in Iraq. None estimated that there would be fewer than 80,000 on active duty...
...Capturing 152 seats in parliament - 13 fewer that those held by conservatives in their first term - Karamanlis promised to press ahead with much-needed reforms. He also pledged to assist thousands of fire victims, shunning mention of Papandreou, who billed the vote "a referendum on the right" at the end of a month-long campaign. Karamanlis also made no mention of Georgios Karatzaferis, the leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, or LAOS, that won over 3% of the vote, becoming the first far-right populist party to enter the Greek parliament since the tumultuous fall of a military junta...