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Epidemiologists love to crunch numbers - and Americans, on the whole, love to ignore them. Even the most health-conscious among us soon grow numb to the storm of statistics warning us about rising levels of obesity or falling levels of exercise or all the other numerical indicators that tell us how unwell we're getting. But on Sept. 14, a team of researchers released a new finding that should cause even the most data-weary folks alarm...
...Call Him Mr. Green Thanks for your encouraging article on Energy Secretary Steven Chu [Aug. 24]. Knowing that a man of his learning and talent is leading the Department of Energy gives me hope for the future. When major scientists like Chu tell us we are facing a global crisis - one that could be deadly to all life on earth - because of the damage we are doing to the environment, it is time to listen and act. Doug Bridges, Columbus...
That's quite a feat in Up in the Air, since his character, Ryan Bingham, is a management consultant hired by other companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. He's a fire-man; he keeps his job by relieving other people of theirs. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy and sincerity, with helpful suggestions on other lines of work, that the victims often leave the interview not wanting to give Ryan the Death Touch. He's a head chopper acting like a grief counselor...
...Crimson dominated the singles draws, coming away with championships for Flight A, Flight C, and Flight D. “We had quite a few people make it to the finals, so we had a very strong tournament,” Green said. “I could tell by the way we were competing in practice that we were hungry and we were ready.”In doubles, Harvard did not fair well in Flight A. The team of Chang and Sibilski dropped two matches before rebounding with a 9-8 victory over a team from Maryland...
...Politics has been like this for probably all my generation’s time. My grandparents fondly tell me of an age when the political climate wasn’t characterized by hysterical soundbite-sized protests and “patriotic” bashing of public officials. Perhaps, once upon a time, such an erudite era did exist. In any case, I can’t speak to that part of the past...