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Charges against Upton, who had been arrested randomly from the mass of musicians, were eventually dropped. Strauss was given a short probation and ordered to pay minimal fines for damage to several New Haven police cars, which he says was caused by rowdy Elis incited by the performance...
They make it sound almost like Lent: "the summer driving season." It sounds compulsory or something, as though I might lose my citizenship if I haven't clocked at least 1,200 miles of continuous interstate travel by June 30 and finalized plans to double that number by Labor Day. This shouldn't be a problem for me, fortunately, because I love taking road trips in any season, but what if sometime around the end of May, say, I'm physically incapacitated? Will my absence on the roads be noticed...
Editor-at-large Claudia Wallis traveled to New Haven, Conn., and New York City's Greenwich Village to meet Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle, two of a group of scientists she came to think of as the Obesity Warriors. "I was struck by how passionate they are," she recalls. "It reminds me of the scientists I met in the early days of the environmental movement...
...effective insurgent. A Taliban source told TIME that it was Shahzada who masterminded a jailbreak in Kandahar in October, when 41 Talibs tunneled to freedom as bribed guards turned a blind eye. Several weeks ago, he and his gang nearly took the town of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven in the southeast, according to a security source in Kabul. His fighters, that source says, overran Afghan outposts and even planted bombs in the town, but French commandos and Afghan militiamen thwarted the offensive...
...things haven't been moving in a promising direction. Just two decades ago, the incidence of overweight in adults was well under 50%, while the rate for kids was only a third what it is today. From 1996 to 2001, 2 million teenagers and young adults joined the ranks of the clinically obese (see "What Is BMI?"). People are clearly worried. A TIME/ABC News poll released this week shows that 58% of Americans would like to lose weight, nearly twice the percentage who felt that way in 1951. But only 27% say they are trying to slim down...