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...other causes. A more serious left-wing argument is that important social goals shouldn't have to rely on the charity of some corporation. While Gates sees what he calls "recognition"--credit for doing good--as a healthy incentive for corporations to behave well, others see the same phenomenon as propaganda and are not impressed. There is something deeply wrong with a system that allows extremes of inequality, these people believe, and creative capitalism is just a way for the corporate élite to put off making the necessary changes...
More than half of the study participants managed to lose at least 10% of their body weight within the first six months. At the half-year mark, however, most of those women relapsed and started gaining the weight back - a discouragingly common phenomenon. "The major outcome of this paper is the maintenance issue," Jakicic says. Once a patient hits her target weight, he says, it's imperative that she stick with her exercise and diet regimen to maintain her new weight...
Still, he could take great comfort from the fact that he is still only a few points behind the Illinois Phenomenon with 100 days to go in the campaign. That fact is the central conversation piece among party professionals on both sides and a real worry for the Obama camp. A Wall Street Journal poll showed Obama's lead shrinking in a handful of battle ground states over the last month; other surveys showed that more than 40% do not relate to Obama's background. Independent voters - the same who worry about his inexperience overseas - are still very much...
...deafening squeals of the Twihards - Meyer's ardent readers, chiefly young and female - reverberated through the San Diego Convention Center's 6,500-seat Hall H. With Meyer's 7th book due out in early August and the film opening in December, the Twihards are in a lather - a phenomenon not lost on the film's stars. "This is kind of the first time I've seen any of them," said Pattinson. "It baffles me. I can't hear anything. It's unbelievable...
...trend are hard to come by, especially since many U.S. firms are eager to conceal the increasing extent of their foreign data-processing, engineering and computer activities. According to Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology at the University of California at San Diego who has studied the phenomenon, such white-collar transfers amount to perhaps no more than the equivalent of 15,000 jobs right now. But more and more of this work is beginning to wend its way to the Caribbean, parts of Asia and other literate regions where intellectual skills are for hire at relatively low cost...