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...cashiers hand out receipts. And even high-end restaurant work has its drawbacks. "After multiple meals at a hotel recently, I just couldn't take another bite," confides Pokodner. "If I did this all the time I'd weigh 400 pounds." Mystery shoppers quickly pick up tricks of the trade: how to spill drinks into potted plants or slip uneaten pork chops into a hidden plastic bag (a trick that can backfire if the waiter looks around for the bones...
...need to clarify that." And there seems to be a consensus on what the clarification should be. "The rock-bottom message should be 30 minutes a day, five days a week," says Church. And while 30 uninterrupted minutes are preferable, three 10-min. bursts also do the trick. As for what moderate means, Kohl offers this guidance: "Walking at about 3 to 3.5 miles per hour is moderate. If you can't maintain a conversation and your heart is beating rapidly, then you've probably crossed into vigorous...
...crowd and spotted "a 6-ft. 5-in. black guy in a cowboy hat, starched Wranglers and a giant belt buckle two-stepping his ass off." The pair shared broad musical tastes, became friends and kept in touch, but Coleman rapped mostly at local bars as "a party trick" until 2001, when he quit his job and made two independent albums that left him $25,000 in debt. "DJs would say, 'This is pretty novel, really cool,'" says Coleman of his early efforts. "'But no way is my boss going to let me play it.'" With his consultant job filled...
...carnal. The movie's fuse is far too long, but there is an explosion, when The King rips off its mask of observational drama to reveal itself as a monster movie with gore galore. Only an actor with García Bernal's appealing seriousness could keep the trick of his character hidden so far up his sleeve. In recent festivals, Cannes has rewarded films critical of American crimes and adventures. Gus Van Sant's Elephant, a reimagining of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, and Michael Moore's anti-Bush Fahrenheit 9/11 were the past...
...fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From age 3, students work with nutritionists to learn food science and cooking, and the lessons are kept up in English and math classes. As a result, childhood obesity in the town has risen just 1% in the past 10 years. "The trick is never to tell the children no," says program director Agnès Lommez. "Kids can and should eat chips, just not every day." --By Jeninne Lee-St. John. Reported by Jonathan Shenfield