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Less than five years after Mundheim joined Fried, Frank, and Harris, he received another phone call from a person in power looking to utilize his knowledge and talent. This time, it was billionaire Warren Buffett...
...final club controversy surfaced when the Ticket Manager for the HAA, Frank O. Lunden, admitted to having allowed members from certain clubs to buy blocks of tickets before they had gone on sale to the rest of the student body...
...show ends with the nudes that were the subject of the only solo exhibition that Modigliani had in his lifetime. Something about the way they combined simplified figuration with frank tufts of armpit and pubic hair shocked even Paris. The gendarmes were alerted and closed the show down. You won't have to worry about that now. You'll just have to fight the crowds...
Even more detailed evidence of the obesity-sprawl connection appears in a new study led by Lawrence Frank, a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Frank surveyed nearly 11,000 people in Atlanta, compiling their body mass indexes (BMIs) and correlating those figures with the characteristics of the neighborhood within a kilometer of their homes, including whether shops and services were mixed in among the homes. He asked participants to keep a travel diary for two days to record where they went and how they got there...
...What Frank discovered was that for every hour people spend in their cars, they are 6% more likely to be obese. For every kilometer--just over a half-mile--they walk in a day, they are 5% less likely to be obese. And if they live in a mixed-use environment (one in which there are shops and services near their homes), they are 7% less likely to be obese--probably because they walk more. "The policy implication of this study," says Frank, "is that if we're going to solve our public-health issues, we're going to have...