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Devine hopes that by quantifying the nutritional impact of on-the-job constraints, it might finally prompt employers to make some workplace changes. "We are not going to fix the obesity epidemic simply by telling people to eat well and choose good food," she says. "This study is telling us that it is the structure of our lives that makes it very difficult to do what doctors recommend...
Even apart from that memorable discussion, our service issues have had a real-world impact. Many of the ideas and proposals Time made over the past two years have been incorporated in the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a bill passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Obama in April...
...think what Michelle has been doing in terms of the community garden and child nutrition is a great example of something that is not as flashy as a political campaign, but it has an opportunity to take root over time and really have an enormous impact on the community...
...eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears. And you really start seeing, I think, a level of awareness about how decisions you make, about where you shop or what car you drive has an impact on the broader world. And so I think it's a positive thing...
...Americans who get health coverage through their employer would not be eligible to buy into a public option, or any of the private ones that would be offered under the newly established state marketplaces; some critics on the left say that would actually lessen its potential cost-saving impact.) Obama said more explicitly than he has before that he is open to watering down the public option. "Some have suggested that the public option go into effect only in those markets where insurance companies are not providing affordable policies. Others have proposed a co-op or another nonprofit entity...