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...change has been so swift and so pervasive that no simple explanation is possible. Maybe we didn't understand all the ramifications when we jumped on the low-fat bandwagon. We also failed to factor in suburban sprawl and six-lane expressways, school cafeterias and fast-food chains, movie theaters and television, advertisers and food processors. "We live in a toxic environment," says Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. "Physical activities have been engineered out of day-to-day life, and the food environment grows worse by the day. We took Joe Camel...
...MARTHA LANE FOX Website Survivor...
...founder of lastminute.com a travel website popular in Europe, Lane Fox, 29, saw her firm's stock tumble from $36 a share in 2000 to about $1 a share after 9/11. But lastminute.com recently acquired three other travel sites, and analysts expect the company to turn a profit within a year. From January through mid-August, its stock was up 222%, at $7.29, making the company one of the two best performing ADRs this year...
...vendors go all night long. If you get the munchies at 2 a.m., make your way to Yanggong Jin (Yanggong Alley), a narrow lane lined with crayfish restaurants. You'll know you're there when you see the bright red shells littering the curb all the way down the street...
...lane road linking the southern French village of Ramatuelle to the sparkling Mediterranean waters off Saint-Tropez snakes down through an idyllic jumble of twisted holm oak trees, jagged white rock, sunbaked farmhouses and acres of lush green vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale 61 could also be lined with grave markers and memorials to drivers like Francis Manzoni. One February afternoon, a local youth who'd been drinking attempted to pass another car on a curve, lost control and hit Manzoni's auto head on - killing him instantly. The accident was iconic of a plague...