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...Over the past four years I've graphed searches for "diets," and, not surprisingly, the yearly pinnacle occurs during the first week of January. What is surprising is just how fleeting an interest Internet users have in losing weight. By the second week of the year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for swimwear season. The collapse then resumes until diet interest reaches an all time low on Thanksgiving Day. Diet searches remain in the trough in the weeks between Thanksgiving...
...During the first weeks of the year, diet searches outnumber their closest self-improvement counterpart, "exercise," by 250%. And the list of most popular dieting queries are riddled with quick fixes such as "diet pills" and "the sacred heart diet," an urban-legend diet promising a 10-pound weight loss in seven days. This year even saw the shortest diet query in search engine history, the "three-hour diet." A look at the top ten searches containing the term "diet" for the first week of 2007 proves long-term solutions aren't a major pre-occupation...
...Rooftops in the old city are crowded with spectators; a tin roof buckles under their weight. Police have closed down the streets; Afghan National Army soldiers guard intersections - Ashura rituals have often attracted Shi'ism's most violent sectarian foes, as the violence that has in recent days wracked Najaf in Iraq, and Karachi and Peshawar in Pakistan, where 14 were killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing. But here in Kabul, the only blood spilled is that collecting at the feet of the participants. "We are all Muslim. It is not important whether we pray with open hands...
...never would. The laminitis flared back up, and a deep abscess developed in his right hind foot. On Saturday, surgery was performed to place two steel pins in a bone to help ease the weight bearing on his ailing foot. "We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him, then it would be time," co-owner Roy Jackson said on Monday...
...ites and Sunnis, arguing that it only benefits Israel and the enemies of Islam. And one reason it called off its general strike earlier this week was that Hizballah has probably concluded that the government, buoyed by roughly equal support to that of the opposition and backed by the weight of the international community, will not buckle regardless of any new measures undertaken by the opposition. That was implicitly acknowledged to TIME by Qassem Hashem, an opposition parliamentarian and member of the Lebanese branch of the Ba'ath Party. "The opposition is sensitive to the political tensions in Lebanon...