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...lack of good food choices that appears to play the greatest role in making poor kids fat, and the problem goes beyond parents' simply not having enough time away from the job to shop and cook. Often the healthiest foods--vegetables, fruits, whole grains--just aren't available. Many obese children live in what are called nutritional deserts, where there are few nearby supermarkets offering the produce nutritionists recommend. Instead, families may rely on corner delis and bodegas, which tend to stock fattening, processed food, in part for economic reasons: processed foodstuffs are cheaper and can sit on shelves indefinitely...
...groups working to get different foods blooming in the nutritional desert, however. One of the most successful is the Food Trust in Philadelphia. Begun as a produce market in Philadelphia's Reading Terminal, the trust sponsors farmers' markets throughout the city, taking fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods that lack them. The group is also working to improve the selection of corner stores and bring back supermarkets to poor neighborhoods that have lost them over the years...
John McCain and President Bush have double-teamed Barack Obama (whom I formerly advised), attacking his willingness to talk to adversaries like Cuba, Iran and Syria. Bush has invoked the "false comfort of appeasement," while McCain has said Obama's approach is "naive" and "shows a lack of experience." McCain is generally seen as a centrist Republican, but in this attack he appears to have embraced the view of a minority contingent of militant conservatives who over the past 60 years have howled virtually every time a President has taken the risky step of engaging hostile states...
...Boumediene, one of six Algerians who became legal residents of Bosnia in the 1990s. Bosnian police arrested them shortly after 9/11, fearing they might be plotting to attack the U.S. embassy in the country. Three months after that, the Supreme Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered their release for lack of evidence. But no sooner were they free than police in Bosnia took them into custody and handed them off to the America military. From there, they ended up in Guantánamo...
...shadowy industry has sprung up in China in recent years that caters to factory owners anxious to disguise breaches of clients' codes of conduct - illegal overtime, say, or a lack of fire extinguishers on the factory floor. Unscrupulous consultants offer quick fixes before a factory is audited; for a price, they can even pose as a fake management team to convince auditors that a sound leadership structure is in place. Factory owners can also buy computer software that presets the times when workers punch in and out, so no illegal overtime shows up on time cards. Lower-tech tactics, employed...