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...People expect [the Square] to be a Williamsburg, Virginia,” Lapidus said. “[But] it’s America and it’s capitalism — what are you going...
...that everybody wants to pay $12--the adult admission fee at the Freedom Center--to hear. Whites may shy away from displays that implicitly indict them. Even some blacks are ambivalent about how to treat the knowledge that their ancestors were once bought and sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor re-enactment of a 1773 estate auction that included the sale of slaves. The hope may have been that the performance would help Williamsburg fight off criticism that it tended to sugarcoat the rough realities of colonial history...
...analysis on how we got so big and what the experts think can be done about it (plus some tips you can use, like how to calculate your body mass index; for that, go to time.com/obesity) The second is the Summit on Obesity gathering later this week in Williamsburg, Va. Supported by funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we've invited more than 400 doctors, nutritionists, corporate leaders, school administrators, health activists, food manufacturers, soft-drink makers, advertisers and government officials--led by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson--to spend three days trying to thrash...
...daily reports from Williamsburg and links to a webcast of the proceedings, visit time.com/obesity
...hundred and thirty two of the smartest thinkers on the issue of obesity are in Williamsburg, Va. this week for the TIME/ABC News Obesity Summit. There is no question in their minds as to the dimensions of the problem; the collective weight of approximately a billion obese people around the globe had caused the "the earth [to sink] a little bit lower" joked Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a keynote speech at Wednesday's opening session. In all seriousness, he reported that new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had concluded...