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WHAT TO THINK State legislators do not expect the case to gain much legal ground, but this is just one of several ongoing legal challenges to Plan B around the country...
...visited each Saturday with his father from age two, he adds, "It was a far-fetched dream." By sheer luck they happened onto Don Jaime's fruit and vegetable stand when he had to put it up for sale, but they had to wait a full year to gain approval from the market's archaic administration - largely controlled by the local families who have sold produce here for more than a century - to change a produce stall into a pasta store. "The merchants all have to agree to let a vendor sell something new," explains Ibars. "Out of the four...
...Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School considered the possibility - and were surprised. For one thing, geographic distance between friends in the study seemed to have no impact: friends who lived a 5-hour drive apart and saw each other infrequently were just as influenced by each other's weight gains as those who lived close enough to share weekly take-out meals or pick-up basketball games. The best proof that friendship caused the weight gain, says Fowler, is that people were much more likely to pattern their own behavior on the actions of people they considered friends...
Fowler and Christakis say that the contagion effect should hold just as much for weight loss as it does for weight gain. "I would hope this influences individuals to get friends and families involved in decisions about health," Fowler says. After all, he says, a weight-loss plan may be more effective if the people closest to you are on board. And, if you're successful, your good health will help others achieve a healthy weight too. The impact extends not just to your friends, it turns out - but also to your friends' friends, and even to their friends. Fowler...
...Rowling makes a more subtle point, it's this. Throughout the series Harry has had to confront and forgive an apparently endless series of fathers and father-figures. It's a wise child that truly knows his father, and Harry has had to gain that wisdom again and again. Learning about and accepting James's and Sirius's flaws - their arrogance, their cruelty towards Snape - was a crucial part of growing up for Harry, and in Deathly Hallows he must go through the process again, with a father-figure more important than his actual father, namely Dumbledore himself...