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...hundred and thirty two of the smartest thinkers on the issue of obesity are in Williamsburg, Va. this week for the TIME/ABC News Obesity Summit. There is no question in their minds as to the dimensions of the problem; the collective weight of approximately a billion obese people around the globe had caused the "the earth [to sink] a little bit lower" joked Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a keynote speech at Wednesday's opening session. In all seriousness, he reported that new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had concluded...
...partners at ABC News consider obesity--especially in children--one of the great health challenges of our age. The idea of the summit, funded primarily by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is to gather the smartest thinkers on the problem and propose solutions to end it in our lifetimes. We are inviting leaders from food, beverage, insurance, pharmaceutical and health-care companies, along with doctors, nutritionists, educators, elected officials and concerned citizens. Among the experts who have agreed to attend are Richard Carmona, U.S. Surgeon General; Eric Hentges, who is redesigning the food pyramid for the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...academic prowess. As Brooks aptly put it, “There are a lot of smart, lively young people in this country, and you will find them at whatever school you go to.” Of course, Harvard students like to think that they’re the smartest of all, but in truth IQ seems fairly irrelevant—not only in the real world, but also on campus. As the admissions office never tires of repeating, Harvard every year turns down plenty of applicants sporting 1600s on the SAT. In so doing, the admissions office recognizes what...
...each other in a series of six simultaneously smart and stupid films, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander and Meet the Parents. Stiller, whose parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were a comedy team in the '60s and '70s, updates Lou Costello with an agitated everyman, while Wilson does the smartest dumb guy ever, thanks to a slacker knowingness...
...midstream a major renovation of the elegant executive floor, and he quickly eliminated perks like cell phones and newspaper subscriptions. "Jamie doesn't care whom he pisses off," says a former Bank One executive. "As soon as he walks in the room, he is by his own estimation the smartest guy there." He moved to shore up the bank's balance sheet by tightening credit standards and dumping bad loans, and he wooed customers with free checking and online bill paying and eliminated fees for using a live teller rather than an ATM. Wall Street rewarded his turnaround of Bank...