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Huckabee, who is a possible 2008 presidential contender, has given state employees in Arkansas exercise breaks instead of smoking breaks. The state's public school children are screened for their body mass index, an indirect measure of body fat, and confidential reports are mailed to their parents. Huckabee wants to experiment with a system in which food stamps would be worth more if they were spent on healthy purchases like fruits and vegetables...
...issue of the storied Harvard Advocate came out early last week, sporting a fresh, leafy cover and a hell of revealing table of contents. The masthead is conveniently printed on the opposite page, and if you check the names through with your index finger, all but half a dozen contributors are members of The Advocate’s editorial board. Call it incestuous or call it harmless, but if nothing else, it’s just undeniably kind of awkward when the face of J. Enzo A. Camacho ’07, a member of the Art board, appears...
...from a few isolated websites into a tight, well-oiled forum for students to debate campus issues, keep track of the local news, and just jabber around. CampusTap is the conscription of the guerrillas—a private ring of Harvard student bloggers with a consistent form, a unified index of topics, and an easily-searchable directory of names. Even the Cambridge Common folks have moved their operation over to the new site. Thanks to CampusTap, no Harvard blogger is an island.A BLOGOSPHERE IS BORNHarvard’s blogging pioneers were students who maintained personal pages—online diaries...
...similar shift in thinking is occurring among weight-loss researchers. For years, their best measure for how dangerous excess weight could be was body mass index (BMI), a formula that combined height and weight. A high BMI meant that you were carrying too much body mass for your height, putting you at risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, heart disease or stroke. The problem, as physicians quickly found out, was that body mass includes not just excess body fat but muscle as well. So fit people with dense muscle mass would consistently register as overweight and unhealthy. That led Dr. Jean...
Also, TIPS can offer a false sense of security, says Jim Ludwick, a fee-only financial adviser in Odenton, Md. The inflation adjustment is pegged to the Consumer Price Index, which he believes understates true cost-of-living increases. Says Ludwick: "This is a product for people who don't want to risk losing money...