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...number in 2003. A quarter of them were passed into law, up from only 12% two years before. In Washington the word obesity appears in 56 bills introduced during the current Congress; this, the Wall Street Journal points out, is fast catching up with the number containing the word gun. Surgeon General Richard Carmona says obesity is a greater threat than terrorism. Some public-health advocates have begun urging the government to put a warning label on soft drinks; others are calling for a "fat tax" on fast food...
...Number of licensed gun dealers in the U.S. in 2005, down 78% from...
...combat may be something of a moot point, according to Captain McKinney, who recently returned from Iraq. With insurgents attacking American soldiers on all sides, there is no clear front line in Iraq. McKinney, while traveling in a convoy, noted that a woman was in control of the machine gun on the back of the truck. “Essentially, that was where the front line was,” he says.Frost called the war in Iraq a “threshold event” for women in the army. “Women are showing by their everyday deeds...
...discusses youth with a grave tone usually reserved for death, ultimately disturbing many comforting preconceptions about childhood. Easily upset type-As can still find reassurance in the juvenile sensibilities the characters employ to dismiss their problems. Flama destroys the objects his parents covet with a B. B. gun, Ulises gets high to the strings of Beethoven and quits his job amidst a hallucination, and Moko works out his romantic issues through pornography and chocolate malt balls. The obfuscatory imagery of Alexis Zabe’s cinematography imparts a sense of lethargy to Eimbcke’s otherwise graceful tale...
...shorter, slightly scruffier, and slightly bleary-eyed.But, on occasion, these categories overlap. A handful of current Harvardians are also soldiers; they traded books for boots and set out for the military either before or after their time at Harvard. And they’ve gotten a bit more life (and gun) experience than most of their peers.SOLDIER SNAPSHOT“I was tired of being at school,” says Ryan A. Delany ’08. “It was a chance to play G. I. Joe for a couple of years.” Delany...