Word: sicklied
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...statistics about how much time kids spend staring at small screens, he draws in his audience with, "Pretty scary, isn't it?" After suggesting that a proportion of children are already on their way to developing diseases for which obesity is a risk factor, he observes that "we're sick and we're getting sicker." And in case anyone's less concerned with deteriorating health than with its costs, Booth warns that if governments don't get serious about obesity and corpulent teenagers don't make changes to their lifestyles, the nation's health system could one day "crack like...
...writing, of course, about Suri Cruise. (I'm told the newscast was also the debut of some lady from the Today show.) Since Suri's birth in April, she had not been seen, spurring a flood of rumors. Was she a hoax? Sick? An alien? Then the House of Cronkite broke its big scoop by flashing the exclusive Vanity Fair photos, with the adorable, ebony-maned head of what even die-hard Internet rumormongers had to concede was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' actual, intact, human baby...
...spent the next few days walking around the district, not really to campaign, but to help out. We arranged for people to knock on doors of the sick and the elderly. We organized food delivery, and arranged water supply, got emergency generators to buildings without power or water. It was so eerie walking in SoHo and Tribeca, with the gusts of dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone...
...managed to make an emergency landing in a different cow pasture - about 50 miles away, in rebel territory. There was no way Ramo would make it to the Casta?o interview, although on the crackly phone line I could hear him and the pilot tinkering with the aircraft's sick engine...
...food industry stopped using horsemeat about 12 years ago. Some 90% of the horses still sent to the slaughterhouses aren't old or sick but in good condition, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Killer buyers" roam the country purchasing horses but not telling owners they'll end up at a slaughterhouse...