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What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
Confronting the impact of eating disorders on obesity research, public policy and societal attitudes toward fatness, Critser dismisses research claiming that parents fear that their children will acquire body image issues if they discuss weight problems. He quotes Judith Stern, a professor of nutrition at the University of California at Davis, who argues that “the number of kids with eating disorders is positively dwarfed by the numbers with obesity...
...discovery that a Pakistani ring supplied some of the world's worst governments with nuclear technology only served to emphasize the contradictory nature of our "friendship" with that fragile country. "It's true the Pakistanis have helped us to capture some of the leading al-Qaeda figures," says Jessica Stern of Harvard, a terrorism expert. "But you also have to wonder: Why do we find them all in Pakistan...
...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...football, the real game is on the sidelines. There the head coach paces, barking orders into his headset, congratulating or chastising a player, wearing a sociopath's stern face as he silently prays he'll be baptized by a tub of Gatorade in the final minute of a winning game. The coach is a chess demon, planning dozens of gambits that depend on whether his quarterback throws for a big gain or gets sacked. He is a video-game whiz kid, and the playing field is his Grand Theft Auto Vice City. He is a field marshal and, sometimes...