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...Only 15% of Americans see international trade as a very good thing, the lowest percentage of all 24 countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pew Survey: What the World Thinks of the US | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...hard to count all your advantages in the good-health game. Chances are better than average that your parents are a healthy weight--only 11.9% of Boulder County residents are obese, compared with more than 30% for the U.S. as a whole. Colorado has the second lowest childhood overweight rate in the U.S., according to one survey. You live in a town blessed with parks and rugged natural beauty, where physical activity is all but mandatory and 14 triathlons were held last year--including one for kids as young as 3. But Boulder, with a population of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just Genetics | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...indefinitely. (Between 1989 and 2005 the real price of fruits and vegetables rose 74.6%, while the price of fats fell 26.5%.) Supermarkets, where better choices are found, are three times as common in neighborhoods that are in the highest quintile of income as they are in communities in the lowest quintile. "What good is it to tell people they need to eat fresh produce if you have to take three buses to get apples?" asks Drewnowski. And if your parents are working long hours to pay the monthly bills, he notes, "making sure you have a salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just Genetics | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...result? The Aptera's drag will be a third of an average car's and less than half of the Prius', which now has the lowest drag in the industry. Cheap technology allowed Fambro to create such an aerodynamic design on a limited budget. For $50,000 Fambro found some off-the-shelf software--the same kind NASA uses to test the drag of its space vehicles. To keep drag as low as possible, for example, the three-wheeled car has no side-view mirrors--the driver has 180° rear visibility with the help of rear-mounted cameras. He estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...upon reaching her lowest point, Rowling said, she stripped away the “inessential” in her life and ceased to pretend to be anything other than what...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rowling Charges Grads To Accept Failure, Cultivate Imagination | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

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