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Contestants train for at least four hours a day on Biggest Loser. In real life, it's not usually possible for someone to get out and exercise for four or five hours a day. Not only is it not possible, it's not safe. You only want to work out like that when you're being medically supervised. We have doctors who have to approve everything I do. I also have a nutritionist and a dietician. And the people who come to the show are very sick! They are 400 pounds! It's very different when you have less than...
...inadequately organized. While it may be impractical for us to stretch our defense forces even more to send troops to Pakistan, U.S. intelligence resources and military advisers would drastically increase the effectiveness of the Pakistani army. The recent deployment of 24 U.S. military advisors to Pakistan to train the Pakistani military in counterinsurgency tactics is a good start. Promising proposed legislation in Congress also calls for $7.5 billion in non-military aid to Pakistan over the next five years to spur economic growth and development, with another $7.5 billion over the following five years. As Pakistan’s president...
...rapid migration of young people out of villages and toward the cities is also blurring the distinction between rural and urban voters. B.D. Raghu, 26, commutes two hours by train, each way, to Bangalore from his home in Mandya, a village 62 miles (100 km) away. He has been doing this every day for eight years, working as a ticket collector in a parking lot, as a warden in a youth hostel, then as a counter clerk in a juice bar and now as the office manager for a local advocacy group, where he earns about $100 a month. "When...
...forest with a million carbon-battling trees near Charles de Gaulle airport; and renovating disused banks of the Seine. The river, meanwhile, is to be developed into a major transport link for goods to and from the Channel port of Le Havre - which, thanks to a new high-speed train track, will itself become a virtual suburb of Paris just a one-hour ride away...
When what is now the Harvard Kennedy School was founded seven decades ago, its chief donor sought a school to educate future leaders in government.To this day, the School’s mission statement charges it “to train enlightened public leaders and to generate the ideas that provide the answers to our most challenging public problems.”But as increasing numbers of graduates enter the private sector—because of debt concerns or pressure from corporate recruiting—some students have concluded the School has fallen short of its lofty aim.In...