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...ideas. One of their most striking findings—from a large study that began in 1948 in Framingham, Massachusetts—is that obesity is greatly determined by social networks (some other researchers have questioned this interpretation). According to Connected, “If a mutual friend becomes obese, it nearly triples a person’s risk of becoming obese.” Because of imitation and shared expectations called “norms,” even friends who are 1,000 miles away produce this strong effect. But don’t get ready...
...lite London girls' school, Jenny has her eyes on Oxford, but can't help giving a longing glance at the world of luxe, of fine art and good restaurants, that she is mad to enter. Admission to the dolce vita is the apple held out by her new friend David (Peter Sarsgaard), a suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With the same connoisseur's appreciation he might focus on an undervalued painting, David murmurs, "Isn't it wonderful to find a young person who wants...
...Playing the market is probably the wrong thing to do, but he got divorced eight years ago, depleting a good portion of his savings, and his medical bills are likely to go up soon. O'Neil is going blind from histoplasmosis. These days he has to golf with a friend. He would like to buy a house in Florida before he loses his eyesight completely, but he just can't afford...
...November was high until the Indonesian press got wind of his decision to reschedule the trip until sometime next year. "Many people will be disappointed but I think they understand that he has a lot on his plate back home," says Dennis Korompis, a local businessman and old family friend of the Obamas...
...irritant to both sides. During a private GOP lunch last month, McCain ripped into Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top GOP appropriator, who has long been McCain's archrival on earmarks. (As is his custom, Cochran remained stoic throughout the ordeal.) Just a month after the death of his friend Ted Kennedy, McCain took to the floor and railed against a $20 million earmark for a center for the study of the Senate in Kennedy's name at the University of Massachusetts. "I can't let my affection for Senator Kennedy affect my principles about earmarks on appropriation bills...