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...most encouraging developments to come out of the TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity earlier this month was an emerging consensus among nutrition experts about what constitutes a healthy diet. Here, one of America's most prominent diet gurus summarizes key points of agreement...
...enlargement designed to heal the wounds of the cold war, why was voter turnout lowest in the East and Central European countries that just joined? And finally, how can Brussels manage to win the affection - or even the attention - of the people it's supposed to serve? This E.U. summit, unlike most, really did deliver a result worthy of Europe's attention. The leaders agreed to a constitutional...
...unanimously, however, details of how to implement it are subject to qualified majority vote, so there may yet be room for mischief making. But with 25 states inside the tent, it will be harder than ever for any one or two countries to run the show. In fact, this summit proved how far from unity the E.U. remains. Leaders couldn't agree on a new European Commission President to replace Romano Prodi, whose term ends in October. Blair and the heads of at least six other countries shot down the candidacy of their Belgian counterpart, Guy Verhofstadt, an outspoken opponent...
...countries over the war but also an important step in Bush's monthlong effort to show that he is an enthusiastic member of the international community. This week he will be host of the leading economic countries in Sea Island, Ga., and he will attend the NATO summit in three weeks in Istanbul...
...with people. He could say that 'I understand where you are coming from,' rather than say, 'You are right, and I have been wrong all of these years.' The next thing you know, he had a very good relationship with Gorbachev, a very personal one." At the Iceland summit, says Bush, Reagan made the rather "romantic" proposal to Gorbachev that they "get rid of all nukes," a wonderful but impossible dream then. Says Bush of his predecessor: "I never had any misgivings about his courage. I never had doubts that if push came to shove, he would do what...