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...factors such as smoking, age, race and alcohol consumption. They found that while obesity caused about 112,000 deaths a year, being overweight prevented about 86,000 deaths annually. Based on those figures, the net U.S. death toll attributable to excess weight is 26,000 a year (about one-twelfth the figure that many obesity experts had been fond of quoting). But this was more than canceled out by the 34,000 deaths that researchers linked to being underweight-having a BMI lower than 18.5. What to make of pudginess appearing to prolong lives? Study coauthor David Williamson speculated that...
...there's one part of America that Moore loves, it's Canada--a country with plenty of guns, poverty and violent films, but a murder rate one-twelfth that of the U.S. He speculates that the reason may be its less sensational media and more enlightened politicians. If he has no answers to U.S. violence, he does offer some scapegoats. He blames TV news for creating a climate of unjustified fear (reports of killings have risen 600%, he says, while the murder rate has decreased 20%) and the Executive Branch for an us-vs.-them foreign policy...
...both state-of-the-art technology to transform their economy and 5,000-year-old superstitions to support their lives. "It turns out that the majority of businesspeople in China believe in the god of fortune," sighs Fu, the Marxist leader. "And one-sixth of the people believe in the existence of gods or demons. One-twelfth believe they have seen ghosts or demons." He sighs again. "Is it any wonder that 80% of Chinese visit fortune-tellers...
...leads to increased long-term unemployment. As an economy progresses technologically, it creates new industries, new consumer goods and new services which absorb the jobs lost to more efficient, older industries. America's productivity has grown twelve-fold in the past century, but our employment rate is certainly not one-twelfth of what it used...
...this topic since the beginning of this term--when he made it an issue at the North House Committee and subsequently came to a meeting of the full Council to vent his views. Unfortunately, Charlie's zealous instincts are as misplaced as his arithmetic is bad ($3808 is not one-twelfth of this year's $70,000 budget...