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...groups 464 overweight women who didn't regularly exercise. Women in three of the groups were asked to work out with a personal trainer for 72 min., 136 min., and 194 min. per week, respectively, for six months. Women in the fourth cluster, the control group, were told to maintain their usual physical-activity routines. All the women were asked not to change their dietary habits and to fill out monthly medical-symptom questionnaires...
...work for longer than half a year, up from 28.9% in June. "This recession is taking people a very long time relative to past recessions to find another job," says John Irons, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Traditionally the U.S. has been able to maintain unemployment at 5% or less, while Europe has for the past few decades been stuck at 8%, even during periods of economic growth. (See "What to Expect When the Recession Ends...
...overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected President in a coup d'état, former general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz legitimized his rule with a landslide win in the northern African country's July 18 presidential election. Though opposition candidates rejected the poll as an "electoral coup," international observers maintain that the result appears to be legitimate. The election's peaceful conclusion opens doors for the reintroduction of international aid, much of which was cut off in protest after the 2008 takeover...
...weeks ahead. In describing her challenge, she referred to the park system's strategic plan titled "Seventh Generation," which plays off an Iroquois Nation concept that every decision in the present must consider how it will impact people seven generations down the line. "It's hard to maintain this thinking when you're dealing with a boom-and-bust cycle, but we owe it to the public to find a way," she says...
Some observers, however, believe the power of the bazaaris as a whole has been slipping. As Iran's economy slowly re-entered the global economy over the past 20 years, certain bazaar members made out well as long as they could maintain special relationships with the government, which handed out licenses to import and export goods and gave more favorable exchange rates to certain traders. But ironically, as postrevolutionary Iran's economy diversified, with malls sprouting up in Tehran neighborhoods that catered to the tastes of an expanded middle class, the bazaar may be slowly losing its central place...