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...poor. So far the government is erring on the side of the rich. In March the government pledged to address problems plaguing the country's peasants, such as access to medical treatment and schooling, health insurance and the disparity between urban and rural incomes. And yet a relatively small portion of the budget was set aside to address the concerns of the peasantry, with the bulk of spending still concentrated on stoking the booming economy...
...that public-health interventions may well be far more cost-effective than previously acknowledged. Helping one person lose weight can have a snowball effect through an entire social network, affecting social norms among the target person's friends and acquaintances. "There's been a lot of talk about limiting portion size, getting rid of vending machines in schools," says Thomas Sander, a civic-engagement specialist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, not involved in the research. Those interventions may be useful, he says. "This study suggests that if we're fighting obesity without taking into account...
Zeller said that most of the weekend involved filming only a small portion of one of the debates and shots of a spectator filling Sanders Theater...
...Slowing things down further is the sheer volume of stuff that we would have to take with us - or destroy if we couldn't. Military officials recently told Congress that 45,000 ground-combat vehicles - a good portion of the entire U.S. inventory of tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, trucks and humvees - are now in Iraq. They are spread across 15 bases, 38 supply depots, 18 fuel-supply centers and 10 ammo dumps. These items have to be taken back home or destroyed, lest they fall into the hands of one faction or another. Pentagon officials will try to bring...
...ANTITERRORISM FUNDING 31% Portion of the $16 billion in post-9/11 federal security grants to U.S. states and the District of Columbia that hasn't been spent. Almost $5 billion remains stalled in government coffers $2.2 billion Amount of new spending requested by the Bush Administration for antiterrorism programs in its 2008 budget