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...Three years later Huckabee and state Surgeon General Joseph Thompson announced that child obesity, while still a big fat problem, no longer appears to be on the rise in Arkansas. Reams of data collected from 371,082 students in some 1,100 schools showed that the number of students in the overweight category was holding steady or dropping slightly from 20.9% in the 2003-04 school year to 20.4% last school year. "This is not the destination, this is a turning point," said Huckabee, who praised Arkansas parents for having "overwhelmingly responded positively" to the feedback from schools...
...visits Yasukuni after becoming Prime Minister, he could destroy Japan's best chance in years to repair relations with China and South Korea. If he decides not to go, he could be seen as kowtowing to Chinese wishes at a time when Japan is increasingly worried about the rise of its giant next-door neighbor...
...point bordering on ridiculous. Others have argued that this obsession with the fabulous is part of the dumbing down of America. What is your reaction to that? I don?t know if that?s necessarily where that comes from. My whole theory is that the rise of reality TV is when the fever-pitch need for celebrity news started rising as well. Reality TV breaks down the barrier between being a regular person and being a celebrity. One day you?re a college student and the next day you?re on the Real World and people recognize you all over...
...keen interest the carnage committed by Hizballah (with the presumed encouragement of Syria and Iran) against the state of Israel. If Islam teaches peace and respect for the sanctity of life, why then the terrorism by Hizballah? Why the continuous provocations on Lebanon's southern border? The world should rise up in solidarity with Israel and demand that Hizballah disarm. Igboeli Arinze Lagos There is only one way to stop the war in Lebanon. To achieve peace, Israel should withdraw from occupied lands, free prisoners and demand the return of kidnapped soldiers. Thinking that one side can actually...
...fine to propose speculative ideas," says Woit, "but if they can't be tested, they're not science." To borrow the withering dismissal coined by the great physicist Wolfgang Pauli, they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. That, says Sean Carroll of the University of Chicago, who has worked on strings, is unfortunate. "I wish string theorists would take the goal of connecting to experiment more seriously," he says. "It's true that nobody has any good idea of how to test string theory, but who's to say someone won't wake up tomorrow morning...