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...people who are genetically susceptible to gaining too much weight already having done so. If that's true, it could mean that a plateau is the best we can hope for and that the next step - the trip down the other side of the weight mountain - will never happen. "That's an up-in-the-air question now," concedes Ogden. Dietz is a bit more optimistic, saying the saturation theory does not hold up because children and adults have plateaued at such different points. "You can't argue that adults will saturate at one rate and kids at half that...
Monitoring zones like this around the world to get a general sense of where the next such pops may happen is not that difficult, mostly because tectonic activity is hard to conceal completely. There are three types of quakes: the dip-slip fault (in which one clashing plate slides under the other), the reverse dip-slip (in which they pull apart) and the strike-slip (a sideways grinding of the plates). Haiti's quake was a strike-slip, but all three varieties are preceded by years or centuries of accumulated stress, in which the slowly drifting slabs of planet...
...happen at the White House...
...Democrats are doing their best to make sure that doesn't happen. They have closed ranks around Coakley in the last week, with Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, endorsing her; the Kennedys were miffed at first by Coakley's candidacy, announced less than a week after the Senator's burial. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant familiar with Massachusetts politics, to Boston to help the campaign, and former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to hold a rally with her later this week...
...question, however, is what will happen now that the omertà has been broken. So far Palin has not responded (beyond a blanket nondenial denial) to the facts about her in Game Change or the views offered on 60 Minutes by Schmidt. But with her new Fox contract making her a professional TV talking head, Palin may soon have no choice but to engage with her critics - an engagement that may well embolden them in ways that threaten her public image more than anything else...