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Grass-roots groups like the Food Trust are a fragile shield against the onslaught of bad food all Americans--but especially American kids--face. In 2000 the average child watched 40,000 commercials, double the number in 1970, and many of the ads were for just the kinds of nutritional junk that's causing so many of our problems. The $2 billion--plus marketing budget of a company like Coca-Cola dwarfs even the $500 million over five years being spent on childhood obesity by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
...conservatives get their way), the anti-engagers proceed as though history has not happened. Their selective memory of Reagan's foreign policy is telling. They correctly recall Reagan's having denounced the Soviets as "evil," his vast increases in U.S. defense spending and his support for a missile-defense shield. What they conveniently block out is the turn Reagan took in 1983 toward negotiation, which played a key role in bringing about the end of the cold war. When Reagan decided to stop denouncing the "evil empire" and start pursuing arms talks, those who today mock Obama then derided their...
...most difficult challenges most human beings can face ... or do you see a victim?" But if some Democrats tend to pity members of the armed forces, the Republican Party "continually seeks to politicize military service for its own ends even as it uses their sacrifices as a political shield against criticism for its failed policies. And in that sense, it is now the Republican Party that most glaringly does not understand the true nature of military service...
...heck that meant. My employee handbook offers no guidelines, so I'm left with my own interpretation: no nylons (like 39% of American women, I haven't worn a pair in more than a year), but then again, no flip-flops (because I respect my colleagues enough to shield them from my unsightly toes...
...Mars, the first landing ever in the Red Planet's polar region. In order to arrive at its destination in one piece, Phoenix had to cap its sleepy 10-month journey with a fiery 7-min. plunge through the atmosphere, during which it opened its parachutes, jettisoned its heat shield, fired its engines and decelerated from a blistering 12,700 m.p.h. (20,400 km/h) to a toe-in-the-dust touchdown speed of a few feet per second. With Mars and Earth currently 171 million miles (275 million km) apart, however, signals from the ship need a full...