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...activity at home. The percentage of teens attending daily gym class has stayed relatively steady since 1991; on average, the yearly change in the proportion of students participating was less than 1%. The percentage of ninth- through 12th-graders getting adequate levels of moderate physical activity - exercise such as slow bicycling, fast walking or pushing a lawn mower, which did not make participants break a sweat - also changed very little, from 26.7% in 1999 to 26.5% in 2005, the latest year for which the data was available. Yet obesity rates continued to rise...
...there another life in American art to compare to Arshile Gorky's? His arc from struggle to breakthrough to tragedy is slow, then swift, then dazzling and finally devastating. In the seven or so years before he took his life in 1948, he produced some of the greatest, most explosive works of the 20th century, a synthesis of Surrealism and abstraction that unlocked voluptuous new possibilities for painting and opened the way to Abstract Expressionism. It wasn't a long life, but it was lit by fire...
...came out slow, which has been a problem for us all year long, but I think it showed our character as a team that we were able to take them to overtime and end on a competitive note,” sophomore Allie Kimmel said...
...Even the President has come under scrutiny for his slow response to the scandal. A week after the President appointed the team to investigate the allegations, he, too, voiced his support for the anticorruption team he formed five years ago. "Our anticorruption commission will continue to be given a role in the fight against corruption because they have proven to be successful and effective in the fight against corruption," he told TIME in an exclusive interview on Nov. 2. "Even though they are currently having some problems, they remain an important part of our fight against corruption." The President admitted...
...Israeli position." (The U.S. has backed Israel's argument that negotiations should resume despite the disagreement over the settlements. Last weekend U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew howls of protest across the region when she praised as "unprecedented" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to only slow settlement activity, but not in Jerusalem...