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...These efforts are noble in intent, but lack the essential incentive so critical to the decision-making processes of the average American: the prospect of cold, hard cash. The easiest way to get Americans to lose weight is to offer a $1,000 tax credit to adults who sustain a BMI between 18.5 and 25—the range considered to be healthy by most medical professionals...
...Thursday, is many things to the 100,000 or so cinephiles who each year make it the premier movie bash in North America. TIFF, as it's known, is a gourmand's glut of international product, a one-stop shop for documentaries, a gallery for experimental films. To sustain the pride of the locals, there's also a barrage of Canadian movies...
Because brilliant writing is difficult to sustain, one usually opens a volume of short stories with the expectation that half a dozen of them will be satisfying and workmanlike, and that a couple will be duds, leaving two or three pieces of real quality to carry the book and advance the reputation of the author. But of the entire trove of qualities that distinguish Vincent Lam's first book of short stories, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, the most immediately conspicuous is that each and every single story in this book is a flickering, luminous...
That is good charity, but bad development theory. Development is all about the long term - about building up the skills and infrastructure that sustain economic growth. Food aid was never meant to be more than a temporary stopgap before the implementation of slower, lasting solutions. In his 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued that famines were simply a case of too many people with not enough food. Malthus noted that populations tended to grow faster than food supply - and predicted global catastrophe without drastic population reductions. In 1981, the economist and Nobel prizewinner Amartya...
...Sports like equestrian need gripping scripts to sustain them during the Games. "It would have been the greatest story in equestrian history if Teddy would have made it to the Olympics," says O'Connor. She's probably not far off. But the world never got to meet Teddy - and now may not get to meet O'Connor either. "The whole thing is sad," she says. "Very...