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...hour and a quarter eating every day, slightly more than only Canadians and Mexicans but less than half the eating time spent by the French. Despite this limited time spent eating, their obesity rates are the highest in the OECD." (That's ten times the rate in South Korea, mind you). "Spain reports the highest proportion of leisure time spent doing regular physical activities. Even there, exercise accounts for a mere 13% of leisure time. ... Italian men have nearly 80 minutes a day of leisure more than women. Much of the additional work of Italian women is apparently spent cleaning...
...contract in July 2011. Although Simmons was one of two school committee members who voted against Young, she said that the ratification of the contract “wasn’t a contentious process at all.” “We have one goal in mind: to do best for all children. When that is your driving theme, you lay down your differences,” she said, adding that this does not necessarily mean the committee members have differences on this issue. The committee responsible for the facilitating the superintendent’s transition into...
...trappings of a small joke told at the expense of a literary world that rushed to canonize Johnson in the wake of “Tree of Smoke.” A closer look, however, raises the question of whether the author had humor or self-sabotage on his mind. “Nobody Move” is the gravitational inverse to a novel like “Tree of Smoke”: a breezy, barely-there venture into the heyday of pulp fiction. The concept actually has a good deal of promise behind it?...
...keep in mind that most U.S. hotels, hit hard by 16 months of recession, will not oblige you enthusiastically if you try to cancel. "Right now, they don't have the leverage, or give, they've had in the past," says Lalia Rach, the dean of New York University's Tisch Center for Hospitality and an expert on the global hospitality industry. "I'm sympathetic to travelers, but it is a business. In New York, people are still going to work...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel advisory, as it has for Mexico. To be able to cancel for any reason, you'll have to invest in a "cancel for any reason" insurance policy, offered by companies like Travel Guard. But that kind of peace of mind doesn't come cheap - up to an extra 35% to 50% of the policy's price, estimates Linda Kundell of the USTIA - and depends on your age, your itinerary, how far out you are booking and the cost of your vacation. Depending on the policy you buy, the insurance plan...