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...solve difficult problems--and difficult problems are pretty much what we'll be looking at for the foreseeable future: the national debt; the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ability to solve these problems means asking people to make a sacrifice, which requires a spirit of compromise and bipartisanship. Only then will trust in government begin to rise, and only then will voters begin to respond. What I can't agree with is the notion, expressed by the Tea Partyers profiled in Von Drehle's terrific story, that government...
...winter calamity--tragedy on the luge track, slush on the downhill course at Whistler and drenching rain on Cypress Mountain that eventually washed away the standing-room spectator zone, costing organizers around $1.4 million in refunded ticket sales. The signature snafu may be this: the Canadians couldn't make ice. A men's speed-skating final had to be halted for more than an hour because two ice-resurfacing machines were in various degrees of breakdown--sort of like the Games themselves. Still, you'd have a difficult time convincing most Canadians that their Olympics aren't measuring up. Snafus...
...factors that have contributed to the epidemic, and Michelle Obama's sweeping new Let's Move campaign to end childhood obesity will most likely inspire further changes in the coming years. But while healthier school lunches and public-service announcements may help future generations stay fit, they won't make someone like Fedorchalk thin. Our national dialogue focuses on obesity prevention, but what do we do for kids who have already gained the weight? (Watch a video with Jillian Michaels: "How to Lose Hundreds of Pounds...
Every meal at Wellspring is basically a fat-free re-creation of something unhealthy. In their nutrition and cooking classes, kids learn to make mozzarella sticks with fat-free cheese and PB&J sandwiches with imitation peanut butter. They're nowhere near as tasty as the original versions, but the kids seem to like them, and at least they don't feel deprived. "A lot of parents ask me why we don't serve organic health foods," says Craig, "to which I say, Is your kid really going to eat that?" (See the 10 worst fast food meals...
...business. And if Martin Lindstrom - author of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disney - is correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get a whole lot harder. (Watch TIME's video "Why a Baby's Laugh Will Make...