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...study by U.S. researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute found that overweight adults had a slightly lower risk of death than their normal-weight peers, largely because they were less likely to die from a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's, infections and lung disease. Another study in 2005, published in Obesity, analyzed data on more than 11,000 Canadian adults for over 12 years and found that people who were overweight were 17% less likely to die than those of normal weight. Underweight adults, by contrast, had a 73% higher risk...
Galluccio resigned the seat earlier this month after he was sentenced to a year in jail for failing a series of breathalyzer tests less than three days after he was put on probation for an October hit-and-run accident in Cambridge. He plans to appeal his jail sentence and will be represented by Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree, according to the Boston Globe...
...Court overturned a lower court’s decision to award Lilly Ledbetter discrimination compensation because she filed her claims outside the 180-day statutory period. Apparently timeliness mattered more than the fact that Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, her employer of nearly 20 years, had been paying her less than every one of her male colleagues. Additionally, in 2008 the Supreme Court voted to reduce the amount Exxon Mobil had to pay for an oil spill from $2.5 billion to $500 million, covering the cost of the economic losses while disregarding thousands of Alaskans whose livelihoods were destroyed...
...notion of a “Godless” campus persisted even when Gomes arrived less than a century later. But now Gomes said that the religious communities on campus are decidedly more active than they had been in previous decades...
Other viewing parties offered lighter, less partisan atmospheres for attendees...