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...partners at ABC News consider obesity--especially in children--one of the great health challenges of our age. The idea of the summit, funded primarily by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is to gather the smartest thinkers on the problem and propose solutions to end it in our lifetimes. We are inviting leaders from food, beverage, insurance, pharmaceutical and health-care companies, along with doctors, nutritionists, educators, elected officials and concerned citizens. Among the experts who have agreed to attend are Richard Carmona, U.S. Surgeon General; Eric Hentges, who is redesigning the food pyramid for the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...International has become one of the most influential, if invisible, private-sector players in politics. Its newest software for candidates, grass-roots organizations and political-action committees, the company boasts, provides users with a shortcut to information that would typically require 20 years' experience in political-campaign work to gather. Clients can search Aristotle's database of 157 million voters, campaign donors, fund raisers and others, drilling for untapped supporters. The company tries to be "scrupulously bipartisan," says a spokesman, and sees itself as a utility, similar to an Internet provider, that sells to anybody...
...guess. Neither political party is overflowing with will--or goodwill--at the moment, and big changes have not been the capital's forte for a decade or more. Washington has not been sitting on its hands since 9/11, but the repairs it has made in the way the feds gather and share intelligence have come mostly at the margins, little fixes to huge federal bureaucracies--in the words of Tenet, evolutionary, not revolutionary, change. That's partly because Washington has been so distracted, mounting and managing two unfinished wars, that it hasn't had time to take itself apart...
...campus for signs of students devoted unhealthily to their studies. I was searching for those fabled souls who forgot to enjoy life, while drowning in schoolwork. From interrogating the staff at Mental Health services to approaching students in Widener, obnoxiously inquiring about their state of happiness, I attempted to gather evidence to support my claims. I found nothing. Nothing, beyond the concerns common to all colleges—“I can’t find a boyfriend,” “I hate my concentration,” “My roommate smells...
...relief, I found that these same, incredibly talented people know when it’s time to put down the violin or exit the Lampoon. They then turn on the X-box, or gather to watch the latest episode of “Sex and the City” or “The Simpsons.” Some may hop on the T to catch dinner in the North End or watch a musical in Boston. Perhaps the wilder ones wander to the Quad to drink and dance the night away. But, to the impressionable prefrosh, I would just...