Word: tolls
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...what's all the fuss about? The latest CDC paper estimated that 112,000 extra deaths each year are associated with obesity. That's a pretty big number, but a year ago, a different group of researchers at the CDC, using older data, put the toll for poor diet and physical inactivity even higher, at 400,000 deaths. Earlier this year, they admitted that they had made a mistake in their calculations and that the correct number was closer to 365,000 deaths. "It's really an evolving science," says Dr. George Mensah, acting director of the National Center...
...path to ruin, reflecting unsustainable demands on soils, waters, and the biota imposed by peoples driven to survive in the present without the luxury of planning for the future. It is a sad fact that aspirations for poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often antithetical. Added to this, the toll from disasters, natural and man-made, is in many cases catastrophic, and the situation is getting worse, not better. Unanticipated variability in climate—droughts, floods, and violent storms—pose problems for those least equipped to cope, a problem not confined to Africa but one experienced increasingly...
Living with extended uncertainty takes its toll, and for the sake of my friends, my family, and my sanity I needed to have my plans for next year settled. “Boston’s great,” people said. “It’s an amazing place to be right out of college.” I couldn’t blame them. They’d never been to New York...
...merchant bankers, students, artists, gamblers and tourists, move between Australia and China each year; if Hong Kong is included, the figure almost doubles. China's rise is easing Australia's isolation, putting it close to one of the hubs of the world economy. But it is also taking a toll: last year, for example, China used an extra million barrels of oil a day, helping drive up prices - and making for a lot of grumpy Australian motorists...
...everyone all the time, but you need to have a business model that's sustainable in the face of a growing China." From his office, Ian Campbell looks out on a vista of marooned shipping containers and the rusting industrial landscape of western Melbourne. Tariff cuts have taken a toll, to be sure, but most heavyweight manufacturers have decamped for China, leaving the country's industrial and engineering heartland as a distribution hub and home to small, parochial players. If you want to get the friendly Campbell really riled, ask him about bilateral trade deals. "I just want...