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...public health problems require policies that actually reinforce positive choices," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California, San Francisco, a principle author of one of the NEJM studies. "We know that healthy nutritious foods and physical activity are really the keys to preventing excessive weight gain in childhood. We need a concerted effort at the federal, state and local level - across government and industry - to ensure that those things are available to our children...
...like those of an actor promoting his new movie (of course, he's promoting his new book). It is inconceivable that a diplomat would believe the simplistic and readily disprovable worldviews he expressed. On the other hand, such opinions will sell books, presumably to Bolton's financial and political gain. My spirits are raised only by the possibility that peacemakers may one day receive their due rewards. Michael Bush, PORT ORANGE...
Designer handbags make a statement, but no self-respecting fashionista wants to keep repeating herself. Help is here from Handbag Hire HQ www.handbaghirehq.co.uk, which rents luxury bags to customers in the U.K. and Ireland. For $15 a month, clients gain access to the latest must-have accessories at a fraction of their retail value: the $990 Mulberry Bayswater, the $1,200 Louis Vuitton Hampstead and the $2,500 Chloé Paddington are available for $50, $60 and $70 per week, respectively. Customers receive their orders by post within two days...
...want to spread the word, win converts, save souls. This isn't a problem for a lot of Americans. But it is a problem for many conservative Christians. Many of them believe that if the G.O.P. nominates Romney - much less if the country elects him as President - Mormons will gain a stronger hand in the all-important business of saving souls. To them, the stakes of that struggle are as great or greater than any fight about a political office...
...Many experts in medicine and criminology are skeptical of Darwin's story. How could a man who professed having no memory for such a prolonged stretch suddenly gain such awareness of his circumstances? "It doesn't fit into anything I've ever heard of," Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, told TIME...