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...life was very much determined by having screens all around me, all the time. I was a major TIVO user, totally addicted to sugar and reality TV. I was just a high-consuming member of the high-consuming lifestyle. And I think that I was just asleep to the toll, in terms of my health, in terms of not being with my family, and to the literal cost in terms of debt. I also realized halfway through the project that it was a great joy to eat this way and live this way, and how much I'd been sacrificing...
...filing comes as the debilitating recession, rising unemployment, a sharp pullback in business travel and weak consumer confidence have taken a crippling toll on hotels. In the first seven months of 2009, hotel occupancy was down 10.3% while average daily room rates are off 8.8%, according to Smith Travel Research (STR). At the same time, lodging stocks lost 80% of their value on average over the past year, although many have rallied back a bit in the past couple of months...
...Wanted: More Troops U.S. military officials suggest that in the coming weeks, General Stanley McChrystal will request additional soldiers to stabilize the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. That will pose a dilemma for President Obama, who authorized the deployment of 21,000 fresh troops in March. As the U.S. death toll continues to rise, public support for the war has plummeted...
...addition to the lost lives of two firefighters, 76 destroyed homes and thousands of evacuees, the fire's financial toll has climbed to nearly $45 million. That has been the cost so far of a ground and air assault on the nearly 160,000-acre Station Fire, as it has been called, with more than 4,000 firefighters working the fire lines and an air fleet of 12 helitankers, seven helicopters and 11 airplanes - including a Boeing 747 and a DC-10 - pouring thousands of gallons of fire retardant on blazing hillsides. Only heroic work by firefighters saved the historic...
...Friday's airstrike targeted militants who had stolen two fuel tankers the day before. It said that most of those killed were Taliban. But Afghan authorities are saying that civilians who had flocked to collect free fuel at the behest of insurgents died among them - with an overall death toll estimated as high as 70. If true, it would be one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, issued strict new counterinsurgency rules to minimize civilian deaths...