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Given the generally higher incidence of obesity, hypertension and other lifestyle ills among African Americans, the church is in a powerful position to do a lot of good. In the 1990s, Marci Campbell, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, helped launch a four-year trial called North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health. The project signed up 50 churches with a goal of helping the 2,500 parishioners eat better, exercise more and generally improve their fitness. The measures taken included having pastors preach health in their sermons and getting churches to serve healthier foods...
...built miles outside Abu Dhabi, contributing to the energy-intensive sprawl growing throughout the emirate. And while Masdar City promises to use the greenest technologies on the market, that won't make it livable. "It looks a bit like a prison to me," says Steffen Lehmann, an urban-design professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia who spoke at WFES. "It's going to be a 1% token-green enclave, while the rest of [Abu Dhabi] goes about business as usual...
...carriers. Much of a carrier group's firepower--accompanying ships and subs and the airplanes on its deck--is dedicated to protecting the flattop itself. "We need to move from a Navy of a few large carriers to a Navy of many smaller ships," says John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at the Navy's postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif. "The carriers ought to have their numbers painted over with bull's-eyes...
...market watchers think we might see prices drop an additional 10% to 15% nationally before this thing is over--then spending billions to spur on buyers won't be a magical fix. "To prop up prices above fundamentally justified levels is throwing good money after bad," says Joe Gyourko, professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Overboosting homeownership helped get us into this mess, after...
...there people who bit off more than they could chew and will never be able to afford their homes? Yes. "We need to recognize the goal is not to keep everyone in their houses for as long as possible," says Edward Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University...