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That obesity impairs health is well-established. Crosnoe's study takes a different tack by highlighting the psychosocial disadvantages of being young and overweight. He says that if the general public discussion about obesity seems "overblown," then perhaps a shift in focus to how obesity can affect education, the future workforce and economic inequality, will allow health and educational professionals and the public a new approach to a discussion of the disease. Crosnoe's upcoming book Fitting In, Standing Out will focus on the effects of social marginalization on education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overweight Kids: College Less Likely | 7/24/2007 | See Source »

...Registration Commission headed by no less a personage than Dolores Umbridge (now permanently merged with Imelda Staunton, thanks to Staunton's indelible performance in the movie version of Order of the Phoenix). Rowling has never been a risk-taker, politically speaking, and this is hardly a subtle or controversial tack to take, but it's one we can all be relied on to get together and be outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

...each). But residual love for his music remains sky high. "Most Indonesians have had a Dewa 19 moment," says Rian Pelor, a music writer for Trax magazine. Certainly, there is no musician like Dhani in the country-he is Indonesia's Cobain or Lennon. And while his new musical tack has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters, what if it does articulate a concern of Indonesia's silent majority? Channeling their feelings is something that Dhani has never failed to do in the past. "Music can reach the masses in a way that Muslim teachers cannot," he declares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guitar Warrior | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...rare interviews over the past few months, President-elect Drew G. Faust has steered clear of making precise commitments to improving student life, preferring to focus on reforms to undergraduate education instead. FAS administrators have taken a similar tack, arguing that it is time to follow several big-ticket social initiatives with a costly push to modernize the curriculum...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Summers’ Focus on Student Social Life, Faust’s Future Support is Unclear | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...overall "horse cost of living" unfavorably with the cost of switching to cars. At the time, a gallon of gasoline cost 18˘, which today would be close to $4--exactly where some experts think we might be headed. But that was still a bargain compared with the oats and tack and stables needed to sustain what Thomas Edison called "the poorest motor ever built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pain in the Gas | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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