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Just how bad is the traditional fair food for us? Put it this way (as ISU Extension did with a clever nutritional display at the fair a few years ago): A 150-pound person must walk one mile to burn off the calories from consuming cotton candy; three miles for cheese on-a-stick; four miles for a corn dog; 5 miles for a fried candy bar; and 11 miles for a gigantic grilled turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat Healthy at the Iowa State Fair | 8/22/2009 | See Source »

Then there's the challenge of creating something portable to cater to fairgoers' desire to eat-and-walk - which explains the mounting number of foods on-a-stick (50 this year, from pickle on-a-stick to chocolate-covered cheesecake on-a-stick.) "How are you going to be able to hold a drink in one hand, your salad in another and still try to eat?" says McCubbin. (See pictures of what the world eats, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat Healthy at the Iowa State Fair | 8/22/2009 | See Source »

There's been a big fuss this week because Michelle Obama wore shorts. She's worn shorts before - to walk the dog, do stuff around the White House. But the photos of her wearing them in that iconic descending-from-Air-Force-One-onto-the-tarmac setting proved too much for the media. Obamas? Check. Summer news doldrums? Check. Controversy? Close enough. It was a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michelle Obama: The Shorts Heard Round the World | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Stella the Fella") and her rival Helen Stephens were men. After Stephens took the gold metal, the Olympics committee performed a manual check on her external genitals - and concluded that she was, in fact, a woman. And prior to the 1966 European athletics championships, female competitors were made to walk in so-called nude parades so that a committee could confirm their gender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could This Women's World Champ Be a Man? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...capital Kabul also saw its share of violence. But many residents had anticipated a more intense day, after suffering through a series of RPG attacks and suicide bombings around the city in the walk-up to the polls. In the early morning of election day, Abdul Karim Safi, 25, a translator for coalition forces, went to the voting station with a group of friends after eating breakfast together. The tension didn't faze him. "Everyone was comfortable," he insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: The Courage to Vote. But Twice? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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