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...know that there are an infinite number of paths you can choose to direct your ship...All of the possibilities will get you to the right destination for you, but the ports of call along the way will determine the quality of your trip...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Frisbees Are Apparently a More Useful Advising Tool Than the Q Guide | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...capitalize on certain Internet websites as fee-paying distributors. Just as cable providers and satellite-television companies pay carry fees to producers of content, Internet entrepreneurs could arrange local advertising or subscription services that would allow them to pay content creators for certain programming. Websites with a -large number of active users, such as Facebook, would become the new Comcast. Networks would thus pass the problem of garnering advertising revenue on to the new websites, who are already actively struggling to find a solution. With such alluring content, even that problem may evaporate more quickly. Other websites would cater...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 4 | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...their values. They have strongly criticized his selection of Kansas Democratic Governor (and pro-choice Catholic) Kathleen Sebelius to be HHS Secretary and have circulated unfounded rumors that the Vatican rejected several candidates to be Obama's ambassador there. Most visibly, the right-wing Cardinal Newman Society and a number of Catholic bishops have protested the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite Obama to speak at this spring's commencement. Even Cardinal Francis George, who sat down in the Oval Office for a half-hour meeting on St. Patrick's Day that he hoped would "foster fruitful dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Democrats: Is Their Support for Obama Fraying? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...taken to educate people, he warns, Brazil faces a sick and expensive future. "If we don't teach people how to eat properly and exercise, then in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will arise," Berti says, adding that the number of stomach-reduction surgeries carried out in Brazil had risen 500%. "The U.S. can't solve its problem, and it is the biggest economy in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...beach nation, one where people like nothing better than to spend weekends and holidays with a cold one on the sand. But the chances of spotting suntanned beauties in tiny bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, according to a government study released this week. Research shows that the number of Brazilians suffering from obesity is growing. And the trend toward the fuller figure is most prevalent among women. "Obesity among women had stabilized in previous studies, and now there is an expressive increase," says Deborah Malta, the study's coordinator. "That is very worrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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