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Source: Murray C.J.L. et al.: Eight Americas (2006). Public Library of Science Medicine. Figures represent 1997-2001 averages
Bombarded by doomsday obesity messages, however, people may expect that, sooner or later, the trend of rising weight will start chipping into average life expectancy. But here's another evidentiary problem for those beating the obesity drum: life expectancy in Australia is slated to go on increasing for at least...
Countries cannot choose the living son or daughter who personifies them in the minds of distant foreigners. Perceptions can be impulsive and unfair. A good deal of today's anti-Americanism, for instance, is simply an expression of antipathy towards George W. Bush, the incumbent Uncle Sam. Saudis, Swedes and...
The telephone call that announced the ban of Iran's foremost independent daily, Shargh, came late this morning. "I have good news for you," said Mohammad Atrianfar, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, putting the receiver down and taking a calm sip of tea. "We've been shut down." I...
Most unnerving for Osteen's critics is the suspicion that they are fighting not just one idiosyncratic misreading of the gospel but something more daunting: the latest lurch in Protestantism's ongoing descent into full-blown American materialism. After the eclipse of Calvinist Puritanism, whose respect for money was counterbalanced...