Word: sodded
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...that the preoccupation with obesity will discourage people from thinking about their health in a balanced way. More than 80% of cardiovascular disease is explainable by some combination of smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and sedentary living (being male works against you, too). Generally, the poor sod who collapses from a heart attack could tick three or more of those boxes. "We've been fighting to stop doctors and patients thinking about any of these risk factors in a vacuum," says The George Institute's MacMahon, professor of cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology at the University of Sydney...
...group headed by Evers had been worried for some time that mercury's reach was greater than it seemed, particularly in the Northeast, which is downwind from the power plants of the Midwest and Canada. Mercury from those plants' smokestacks could find plenty of bacteria in water, leaves and sod to make the toxic conversion to methylmercury. Netting 178 species of songbirds and testing their blood and feathers, Evers found that all of them were indeed contaminated, some in concentrations exceeding 0.1 parts per million. That doesn't sound like much, but it's a lot higher than it ought...
...students. (CNC)Sand Machine. Boston folk-rock band Sand Machine plays selections from their EP “Running of the Tree Frogs Week.” A cross between late Beatles, The Band, and Neil Young, Sand Machine will play alongside fellow Bostonians The Gulf, Freighttrain, and Medina Sod. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. $10. (JSA)Railroad Earth with Honkytonk Homeslice. This staple of the American roots music scene presents a blend of vocals and acoustic instrumentals to create its unique sound. Paradise Rock Club. 8 p.m. Tickets available through Next Ticketing. $15. (JDMC)The Figgs with Teenage...
...selectors went for three spinners. There's no turn. Strauss and Trescothick, free of my taunts, put on 400 for the first wicket; there's rain forecast for the next week. Great for the farmers. Who cares? Might as well turn into a tsunami. England will retain the Ashes. Sod them...
...lunch time, and helen Clark is on to her second silly hat of the day. Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe...