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...time, General Motors heir Stewart Mott drove a Volkswagen. A self-described "avant-garde philanthropist," Mott lived briefly on a Chinese junk, publicized his sexual conquests and cultivated a farm--replete with compost pile and chicken coop--atop his Manhattan penthouse. Yet these eccentricities didn't obscure his lavish contributions to a range of progressive causes, including abortion rights, arms control and the presidential bids of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern...
...spot the fret lines above his eyes and see the carcasses of other robots on the junk heaps, we realize that WALL?E is a lonely guy. There's an instant poignancy to his puttering around the late, great planet Earth like a solitary child on an abandoned playground, or an oldster among his souvenirs. WALL?E's special ache is his nostalgia for a life he never lived, for the intimate connection only humans enjoy. On his home VCR (a Betamax!), he plays and replays two numbers from the 1969 movie musical Hello, Dolly!: the brassy Put on Your...
...more than 400,000 children, sending home confidential health reports to parents. BMI is an imperfect metric since it often mistakes a stocky or muscular kid for an obese one, but as a quick way to spot weight problems it can reveal a lot. Officials also eliminated junk-food vending machines in all elementary schools--a policy that's becoming more common around the U.S.--and added half an hour of daily physical education to the school curriculum. The plan has had its critics, but Thompson knows that without help, children in Arkansas--poor, relatively rural--face a lifetime struggle...
...roots groups like the Food Trust are a fragile shield against the onslaught of bad food all Americans--but especially American kids--face. In 2000 the average child watched 40,000 commercials, double the number in 1970, and many of the ads were for just the kinds of nutritional junk that's causing so many of our problems. The $2 billion--plus marketing budget of a company like Coca-Cola dwarfs even the $500 million over five years being spent on childhood obesity by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
Perhaps it's American to take caveat emptor as our creed, to let the junk food we so clearly love flow freely into the marketplace--and if you can't be bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white...