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...thing right: the ratings were lower. To be fair to NBC, so were the costs. Even getting no more viewers than Leno did in late night, the network was reportedly ahead in ad revenue. But that was no comfort to NBC's affiliates, the local stations that make up the network by agreeing to air NBC shows. Their nightly newscasts suffering, they found The Jay Leno Show even less amusing than TV critics did and threatened to revolt...
This one group of dangerously obese outliers is not the only thing that makes the twin studies something other than unalloyed good news. More worrisome is the possibility that the national weight plateau is not the result of Americans' finally getting the message about diet and fitness but the fact that we've simply reached some kind of obesity saturation point, with nearly all people who are genetically susceptible to gaining too much weight already having done so. If that's true, it could mean that a plateau is the best we can hope for and that the next step...
...weight experts are choosing to interpret the numbers in the most hopeful way, saying public-education campaigns are working and that now is the time to double down on them. "The one thing that was most responsible for the drop in the per capita tobacco use in the U.S. was public awareness," says Dietz. "That may be happening with obesity now." America's health - to say nothing of its waistline - may depend on that being true...
...Line and pull off their pants in the process. The pantless mass traveled in groups, because, as one BSS Website sagely observed, “riding around town in your underwear by yourself (especially if you’re female) isn’t the safest thing to do.” Duly noted...
...jewels, body paint and burials the only evidence for Neanderthal ingenuity. Several years ago, German scientists published a study saying that Neanderthals were manufacturing tarlike pitch out of tree resins, which they then used to affix stone points to wooden shafts. "This isn't an easy thing to do," says Zilhão. "It involves several hours of processing at 400 degrees. These guys made the first artificial raw material in the history of mankind...