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...children become obese? One important factor is insulin, which enables the body to store extra calories as fat. Physical exercise helps control insulin levels, while certain foods elicit its massive release. For example, ingesting fat alone doesn't prompt a big surge in insulin, but fat combined with starches and sugar does. A child who sits in front of the TV for hours on end, eating potato chips and doughnuts, is an ideal fat-storage machine...
...Economic liberalization has led to cultural liberation too, as young Indians become more connected to global entertainment. From only two staid state-run television channels in the early 1990s, cable-TV subscribers can now get 80 or more, replete with MTV and episodes of Friends. These mutually reinforcing trends prompt Indians to crave the big-name foreign brands that India's protectionist politicians kept out of reach for so long...
...fact, the only subject that could prompt Ford to stray from the topic of a lecture was his pet sport, baseball. Ford, who played baseball in high school and college, was an avid fan. According to his son, one of his greatest disappointments was that neither of his two favorite teams—the Chicago Cubs of his hometown and the Boston Red Sox of his adopted city—won the World Series during his lifetime...
Even if talks start, there are enormous risks. Washington could miscalculate how much diplomatic pressure to apply to the North or run such a tough interdiction regime that Pyongyang responds with more provocations like the one along the DMZ last week. That in turn could prompt China to abandon its efforts to nudge the North into making concessions. Overhanging all this is the suspicion that in the end, North Korea is simply dead set on getting nukes, no matter what the cost. "We need nuclear weapons to survive if the U.S. continues to isolate and pressure us," North Korea...
...That may not be something the U.S. is ready to consider. Yet. But the burden of the Iraq mission may yet prompt a rethink. And Blair will certainly be back. For one thing, he still as a medal to collect...