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...sick. "It really doesn't make sense to call obesity a disease-it's a risk factor," says Stephen MacMahon, principal director of The George Institute for International Health, in Sydney. Moreover, it's a risk factor for maladies-heart disease, stroke, and even type 2 diabetes-that strike thin people...
...deprived all of us of the liberty and privacy we once took for granted in the bubble. Now Lamont and Widener are subject to surveillance under the PATRIOT Act. Some student activists are being watched by the Pentagon. And a journalism student recently uncovered “Project Strike Back,” in which the FBI mined hundreds of students’ financial aid records...
...Strike ’06-’08 lamented that the food quality was not up to par with Tommy?...
...Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell's version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward and needy creed with a mature and generous heart. If God does want...
...distanced himself from many of the hardline views of Iran's current leadership, but strongly criticized the U.S. for what he suggested is "arrogance" in Iraq. He also cited human-rights violations at both Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, and warned of the "costs" of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on his country. But he endorsed a "two-state solution" to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and called the Holocaust a "historical fact." Excerpts...