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...supreme American novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, and Nathanael West, 37, died within a day of each other in December 1940. Just a few hours after Edith Piaf died on October 11, 1963, her friend Jean Cocteau passed away as well; some said that France's supreme aesthete did it as the grandest possible gesture of solidarity...
...cold ambition drives her to do whatever is necessary to win. She convinces Hal to become her debate partner, and he jumps in headfirst, hoping to master love and public debate in the same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time, Yoo delivers some of the movie’s sharpest and funniest lines with his soft-spoken delivery...
...data show that weight gain in a close friend or relative may significantly increase a person’s likelihood of becoming obese themselves, a conclusion that suggests anti-obesity efforts that focus on group programs—such as weight loss support groups or jogging clubs—will be more effective than individual-based interventions...
...study, which was published in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, found that a mutual friend becoming obese correlated with a 171 percent increase in the probability of obesity in the other friend...
...mutual—subjects that had an unrequited friendship with a person who became obese ran only a 57-percent greater risk of obesity, and there was no statistically significant change in the odds of becoming obese if the only the person gaining weight viewed the subject as a friend...