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...Much potential exists to reverse ominous trends in cardiovascular health," the authors write, "but this is unlikely to occur without making prevention of overweight and obesity a national priority." There's no way of knowing when Americans who have heard this refrain again and again will take notice - and take action - but when 92% of us are affected, now seems like a very good time...
Americans famously overspent during the 1990s and early '00s. It's a familiar story: we mortgaged oversized homes to buy colossal TVs. But you may have heard less about another commodity we binged on: justice. Americans indulged in an enormous criminal-justice spending spree during the past 25 years, locking up more and more offenders (particularly for drug-related crimes) for longer and longer sentences. Total spending on incarceration rose from $39 per U.S. resident in 1982 to $210 per resident in 2006, according to the most recent figures from the Justice Department. We now spend $62 billion a year...
...wider Australian community because "Australians wonder about [displacement] a lot. For so many here, there's a homeland across the seas." His images of Australia's long Chinese history - its shrines, graves and old gold-mining settlements - are also eye-opening for many viewers. "Most people had not heard a Chinese-Australian story told from the Chinese point of view. I think my stories were some of the first to be told in the mainstream...
...Sheila Lukins had on American cooking, start with her breakfast strata. Usually made from little more than dull layers of bread, cheese and eggs, in Lukins' hands the dish became a bold delicacy with prosciutto, arugula and pesto. The fact that her recipes contained ingredients most Americans had never heard of in the 1980s hardly mattered. Lukins, who died Aug. 30 of brain cancer at age 66, knew how to make things taste good...
...guitar-heavy songs - things the Beatles could have sung live. Some of the most infectious are those early, primitive classics from their first album, Please Please Me, which was released in 1963. As you start playing, especially if you're a novice, you may share Lennon's testy frustration, heard on the earliest of the box-set minidocs. "Get that bloody little mike out of my way," he grumbles, and McCartney soothingly replies, "Don't be nervous, John...