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...rental-fleet sales down for good? Jim Farley, Ford group executive for sales and marketing, says rental fleets are starting to look for replacements for worn-out vehicles. Rental fleets have kept cars in service longer than in the past, but they're going to have to pay more for replacements now because automakers have slashed assembly capacity. One of the reasons Chrysler sales have dropped so dramatically this year is that the company withdrew from the fleet business because it was unprofitable...
...With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys - married and unmarried - spikes only between the first and second years of living together...
Couples don't have to live chubbily ever after. And studies show that marriage conveys some health benefits, like living longer and being more likely to quit smoking, notes UNC's The, who lives with her boyfriend but insists her obesity findings haven't scared her away from the idea of marriage. "This is an interesting paradox," she says, "but it certainly wouldn't stop...
Operation Khanjar - Pashto for "dagger" - is the first test of the Obama Administration's new strategy for Afghanistan. No longer treated as a concern secondary to Iraq, the Afghanistan theater will see the number of American soldiers serving there increase by 17,000 by this fall. And under McChrystal, they'll be waging a different kind of war. Limited troop availability in the past meant that while NATO forces could clear an area of insurgents, they were unable to hold the terrain. Now the plan is for the Marines to set up combat posts in villages to provide the residents...
...have a relaxed view of the virus, although he says no one would intentionally expose their children to the disease. "I don't know any parents seriously considering the idea of a swine flu party, but I think parents have seen how mild the illness is and are no longer anxious about their children contracting the illness," he says. Health officials may wince at such sangfroid in the face of the virus, but, says Cummings: "Parents are shrugging their shoulders. If the kids...