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...would argue that from a recent article in the International Journal of Obesity, we probably understated the benefits. All you have to do, frankly, is look up interval exercise on the Internet. We didn't invent that. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming. They took issue with one point called after-burn, which they said we overstated. I don't think we overstated it. The benefit that you burn more calories in a shorter period of time is absolutely clear...
There's a story that shows up a lot--of people who have some scheme or some way to invent a new life for themselves. Those stories seem to me to be very American. I say that not knowing much about people in other countries...
...coal companies, power plants, and every other enterprise in America would have an incentive to reduce carbon emissions, because when they go under those limits they can sell the balance of permitted emissions for cash. As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve, or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy...
...benefit of using a design approach as opposed to pure management consulting, advocates argue, is that it enables--or even requires--a team to invent new ways to solve problems. Jump Associates, based in San Mateo, Calif., recently collaborated with General Electric's executive-jet business. Jump managing associate Dev Patnaik walked the GE people through hangars and later sent them to a toy store; one brought back a model plane attached to a plastic landing strip. The executive, Patnaik recalls, said, "This is it--this is the problem with executive jets!" He then explained that the services jet owners...
...Sterling said that the incorporation of e-mail speak into more formal modes of discourse is part of the natural progression of the English language. “Capitalization could end,” said Sterling. “Young people have always used their own language. They invent it, they speak it, and now they’re writing it,” Sterling said...