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...Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight is burning extra fuel, some of which may be coming from Persian Gulf nations that may have funneled money...
...states that produce SUV components. Which is partly why SUVs live in a kind of unprickable bubble in Washington. SUVs can get horrible gas mileage because the 1975 law that created fuel-efficiency standards made a distinction between cars and light trucks. (SUVs count as trucks because of their weight and off-road capability.) Everyone agrees that when the fuel-efficiency law was passed, Congress had no intention of exempting a huge class of passenger vehicles from regulation; SUVs didn't really exist back then. There were only the precursors--the Jeep, the Chevy Suburban--and they were considered work...
...Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., have just finished a three-year mission to cut the fat from the military's 1,700 mess-hall recipes. The changes were made to deal with an uncomfortable reality: like many other Americans, too many soldiers are paunchy, despite weight requirements and physical training. Many military personnel hold tedious, stressful and sedentary jobs, and as a result, 54% of all military personnel are overweight and 6% are obese, according to a study done in 2000 by scientists at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina...
...winning novel is unapologetically Oscar bait, a solemn, century-spanning “what is life?” treatise backed by a triumvirate of A-list actresses (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) and directed by Billy Elliot vet Stephen Daldry. Yet for a film of its ostensible weight, The Hours certainly takes easy shots at its lead trio—three colossally boring straw women who rediscover their lost vitality in drearily obvious ways as the picture progresses. Perhaps The Hours’ greatest value rests in its side-by-side comparison of Moore, the greatest actress...
Despite the weight of all these expectations, both Crooks and Coronado emphasize that the pressure on them is mostly self-imposed. “The expectations I put on myself are really high because of what I’ve been given,” Crooks says. “I am so lucky to be here. My whole life, I’ve been the luckiest person I know...