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...even if text messages become fairly priced, you might want to stick to phone calls. Your thumbs will thank...
...basic allure of food: yumminess. As she opines, ?That crap?s for rich people who hate themselves.? And later: ?I?m not tryin? to be dramatic, but I would rather be shot in the face than eat this food.? Why shouldn?t she stick to her diet of Dr. Pepper, Pringles, TastyKakes, Red Bull and the occasional cigarette? And when threats don?t work, Angie tries logic: ?There?s a thing called being too healthy. That?s what killed Bruce Lee.? (It was more likely a brain aneurysm.) Angie/Amy may lose this debate...
...there is no national mandate requiring schools to build it into their curriculums. Even when P.E. is offered, only about half (48%) of all high school girls are enrolled in the class. The numbers start off promising - 70% of freshman girls enroll - but quickly tail off: only 32% stick around by senior year, according to a 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We're just not teaching kids how to be physically active," says Nicole LaVoi, one of the authors of the Tucker Center report...
...cease-fire could provide an opening for real negotiations and would allow the thousands of refugees from the region to return home. But Mehsud, said to be a superior tactician, could also use a pause to rebuild his forces. And if he is able to make a cease-fire stick, he'll have demonstrated an alarming cohesion within the militancy. "If the militants are able to shut down attacks, and keep them shut down for this period of time, it proves that the terrorist attacks were not by freelance bombers," says Marvin Weinbaum, scholar in residence at the Middle East...
...That's hardly an encouraging start to negotiations, and neither is the track record. A controversial peace accord in 2006 dissolved in a spate of attacks on military forces and allowed extremists to regroup. The government contends that current negotiations are more likely to stick since they're being conducted with tribal leaders, not just with militants...