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Healthy Prescription Re O for obesity, in your "The Year in Medicine: From A to Z issue [Dec. 1]: One way to fight rising obesity rates would be to tax fat. If I had to pay $10 for every pound I am overweight, I would quickly lose my 25 excess pounds. With a "fat tax," we could pay off our $10 trillion national debt in no time. David Thiessen, Woodstock, Illinois...
...slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright - and still relatively expensive - concrete that has come onto the market this decade. High-performance or ultra-high-performance concrete, as it's known in the industry, is up to 10 times stronger than regular concrete. Although, pound-by-pound, it costs several times as much as regular concrete, industry officials say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have different properties that make them more comparable to materials such as stainless steel or aluminum - which are often more expensive still. The latest concretes have other advantages, including...
OSCAR SAYS ... To get fit, chop wood and pound tires. And eat deer and kangaroo too. Why? High-protein...
...glean more boxing insights, TIME visited De La Hoya--who, at 35, is still the most popular fighter in the world--in Big Bear Lake, Calif., where he was preparing for his Dec. 6 pay-per-view bout with Manny Pacquiao, the top-ranked pound-for-pound boxer on the planet...
...Dixon McPhillips ’10 is a VES concentrator in Kirkland House. Give him a fist-pound...