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...While these results aren't definitive, researchers in Saudi Arabia and along Europe's Mediterranean coast have found similar patterns, as customary low-fat foods are abandoned. "We blindly accepted that the Western way of life was better," says Dr. Xu Guangwei, head of the Beijing-based China Anti-Cancer Association...
...Afterward, sleep off the wassailing in the Villa, a discreet building that is the hotel's top-tier accommodation. The bill for dinner comes to a trifling $7,000; the three-bedroom Villa costs $2,720 a night in high season. Well, you wouldn't be skulking around in low season, now would...
Society hasn't made it easy for newly evolved dads to feel manly either. In Rochlen's study of stay-at-home dads, those who scored low on measures of traditional masculinity professed higher degrees of happiness in their roles--as well as in their marriages, with their children and with their health. But even they worried about how the rest of the world viewed their choice--with some reason. "There's definitely a stigma out there," says Rochlen. "The dads tell stories about mothers on the playground looking at them like they're child molesters or losers...
...study sessions are very much a product of Hu's leadership and personality, reflecting a methodical, consensus-seeking approach to problems. At the midpoint of what is expected to be a 10-year period in office, Hu can reasonably think that his low-key style has served China well and that he has done his best to manage the fissures that a quarter-century of breakneck economic growth have torn in Chinese society. But far, far more needs to be done to deal with the country's daunting list of crises--a ravaged environment, rising inflation, rampant corruption and widespread...
...elsewhere, with rates rising dramatically, as much as sevenfold, over the past decade. By 2020, 70% of global breast-cancer cases will occur in the developing world. Part of the reason for the change is better sanitation and control of infectious diseases, which have extended life spans in low- and middle-income countries, allowing women to age into the breast-cancer demographic. Part of it may be the globalization of bad Western habits--fatty diets and lack of exercise, which may contribute to the disease...