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...into a lot of problems. They run from the minor discomfort of fallen arches and having to wear glasses to really serious problems like diabetes and obesity,” he said. He noted that humans tend to address the symptoms of their physiological problems as opposed to their root causes, a phenomenon that he discouraged. “Our society has taken the small approach to thinking about these problems. We engage in what I’m calling ‘dysevolution,’” said Lieberman. He suggested that society combat obesity by creating...
Watching those games is also great prep for picking winners. There are so many different criteria proposed by experts that they often contradict each other in the end. So go with your gut. Pick teams you root for to win, within reason, while predicting teams you don’t like to lose earlier than expected. (Duke has lost to a lower seed every year since 2004 hahaha). Most importantly, be pumped. This is sports utopia...
...procession. But the rest are left behind to attend to their dilapidated movie house-of-homosexuals, caught between the old world and the new. “I’m not choosing sides!” shouts Naday in an earlier scene, and this attitude may be the root of their woes after all. —Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached at blipton@fas.harvard.edu...
...other root cause that bedevils any attempt to improve the job situation is that private enterprise is suffering from an unusually rapid loss of earnings. Corporate bankruptcies are beginning to rise sharply, and even companies that have been considered rock-solid, such as GE (GE) and Microsoft (MSFT), admit that their core businesses are being hurt badly and are coy about when they think the situation will improve. Large companies have gotten into the habit of saying that they cannot forecast earnings because they have "limited visibility." In most cases that means they cannot predict their sales beyond the current...
...like the Super Bowl. If your team isn't in it, you root for the team you hate less. That's McCain." - on his dislike for John McCain, The New York Times Magazine, July...