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Once we knew what we wanted to do, the first call we made was to our friends at ABC News. TIME and ABC were just wrapping up a joint reporting effort in Iraq, and we were eager to try it again. We also knew that Peter Jennings had a particular interest in obesity. Last December he produced an hour-long report, How to Get Fat Without Really Trying. "I find the subject fascinating," he says. "It's about more than just diet. It's about social behavior, political behavior and the whole issue of personal responsibility and government interference...
...producers at ABC quickly agreed to be our partners at the summit and set to work on a series of reports, including the stories listed here, that will air all this week on Good Morning America, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline. Reports from the series, "Critical Condition: America's Obesity Crisis," will also be featured on World News Tonight Sunday, World News Now, World News This Morning, ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com...
France has been good to Peter Mayle. With the enormous success 14 years ago of A Year in Provence, about the adventures of Mayle and his wife after they moved from England to restore an 18th century farmhouse in the Luberon, he pioneered the Anglos-in-paradise genre. Every few years now he produces a new book to remind the rest of us worker bees what we're missing by not rolling in honey all day in the south of France, that great sunlit throne room of the middle-class imagination. In Mayle's books, both the novels...
...Health and Human Services, which runs the CDC, and the Department of Agriculture, which controls the food pyramid, have convinced her that responsibility for messages on nutrition should be moved someplace less subject to political pressure. She is not alone in thinking so. In May, Senators Ted Kennedy and Peter Fitzgerald proposed a bill that would transfer authority to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science. "This legislation would give us a new general in the war on obesity," says Illinois Republican Fitzgerald...
...Peter Kim, the call to join the family business came as a rude awakening. Snoring away a spring-break morning at the University of Southern California in 1994, Kim picked up the phone to hear his father Sang Hoon Kim shouting at him in Korean. "He goes, 'The company's got problems. Everybody's got to help out,'" recalls the younger Kim. The son did a lot more than that. At the time, office workers were no longer buying the polyester blouses the family company, Protrend, churned out. Sales were tumbling 50% every year. What's more, the father...