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...previous work showing the heart benefits of moderate drinking, Katz prefers to look at it this way: "This study suggests that you can probably make room for moderate alcohol consumption and not have it result in weight gain. But we certainly don't want to suggest to people to go out and drink more alcohol as a weight-control strategy...
...Europe. Do you feel that? Not at all. I've just come back from a very long and very good meeting with Secretary of State Clinton in Washington. We've met three times, and often speak on the phone. And as an old parliamentarian, I'm always anxious to go to Capitol Hill when I am in Washington. We knew there was an issue for the President for timing, but he will be coming to Portugal for the NATO at the end of year. (See pictures from Obama's overseas trips...
...place, these attitudes have become a serious concern. On Feb. 23, at the NATO strategic concept seminar, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was particularly blunt. "The demilitarization of Europe - where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st." Plenty of European diplomats would agree with him. After the speech one diplomat spoke of an "inertia" among Europeans when confronted with novel threats. "We have...
...Asian states worry that an alternative order based on the superiority of the Chinese civilization will eventually become hierarchical. A still insecure and internally weak China has largely pursued win-win economic relationships to appease a nervous region. But if its domestic example is anything to go by - where the authority of the CCP to wield power and control resources is absolute and dissent is harshly treated - a dominant Middle Kingdom might show little future restraint in the relentless quest to enhance China's national power...
Debt-laden Greek companies, with nowhere to turn for further loans, may go belly up or be gobbled up. "Without cash, you're dead as a business," says Aegean's Vassilakis, whose company is in discussions for a possible merger with Olympic Air. For Basil Stephanis, president of Selonda, a $167 million aquaculture company with fish farms in Greece, Turkey and Wales, Greece's woes are an "opportunity to consolidate and buy up companies with liquidity problems." Constantine Petropoulos, chairman of Petros Petropoulos, a $158 million firm that sells cars, automotive supplies and industrial equipment, has already diversified his business...