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...study. Popkin, whose recently published book The World Is Fat examines the global trends driving the obesity epidemic, joins a growing cohort of researchers, environmentalists and foodies clamoring for an overhaul of the American diet. Currently, the average American consumes more than 200 lb. of meat a year, a habit that comes at considerable environmental cost, Popkin says. He cites a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization finding that livestock account for 18% of global greenhouse-gas emissions - more than transportation - and underscores the fact that the livestock industry uses up to five times the water necessary to cultivate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Growing Case Against Red Meat | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...could this amiable character possibly have done to anger all his friends? Did he bite someone’s face, leaving that gaping hole in his teeth? Did he ditch his colorfully-scarved yuppie friends for the strange Clockwork Orange-themed couple in his support group? Or maybe his habit of spitting at women simply isn’t that attractive during the nighttime? Who knows? It’s a mystery. All we know for sure is it left Argos with the mother of all hangovers. “I’m hiding it well...

Author: By Will L. Fletcher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Art Brut | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...film’s lovable, but not particularly successful, sisterly duo. Adams plays a once-popular cheerleader having an affair with her married ex-quarterback, ex-boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn). Their son Oscar (Jason Spevack) is in desperate need of expensive, individualized private school enrollment thanks to his habit of licking walls at his current public school. Norah has even less to look forward to in the morning. In the words of her sister, “You don’t go to school, you don’t have a job, and you live with Dad?...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunshine Cleaning | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...soft guy, his comedy can be pretty dude. He's both the kind of guy who indulges his 4-year-old son's habit of dressing up in three-piece suits and one whose friends view a TIME magazine article as an opportunity to tell embarrassing stories about him. "He always liked to get naked. Anybody that lived in his fraternity house would tell you. And yes, he is a frat boy, no matter how much he would go screaming from that now," says sportscaster Joe Buck, who, along with Mad Men star Jon Hamm, has known Rudd since their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Rudd: Everybody's Buddy | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...people a year, up from about 3,500 now. "I'd be in a problem situation or maybe even dead if it weren't for Fortune Society," says Victor Chapman, 44, a Castle resident who served 3½ years in prison for assault (committed to support a crack habit) but who now appears at college literature courses to talk about the Society's therapeutic oral-history project that is helping him write his autobiography. (Read TIME's 1971 cover story about Attica prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another By-Product of the Recession: Ex-Convicts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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