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...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 out an antiobesity action plan...
Soon enough, so was he. Paris would place before Modigliani its full arsenal of new ideas. Like Picasso, he would make a crucial encounter there with African wood carvings. Their wild distortion of the human face and figure would point him in a new direction--for one thing, toward the asymmetrical almond eyes, sometimes painted without pupils, that became one of the signature tropes of his portraiture. Unlike Picasso, he used African sculpture not as a route into his fears and sexual obsessions but as a much more benign vocabulary of forms that could be joined with other influences...
...been absent from the diet for so long, it feels new to a certain generation of designers," says Murray Moss, owner of Moss, a popular New York City design store. "Thirteen years ago, injected molded plastics were the fascination. But that has kind of played itself out. Now wood, paper and ceramic feel...
Many young designers, including Lian Ng of San Francisco--based Publique Living, are molding and braiding wood. "There is a lot more use of wood in nontraditional applications," says Ng, a former graphic designer who creates lamps out of strips of maple or walnut veneer that are then woven into braided patterns. "With so many new products, I wanted something that is innovative yet familiar at the same time...
...more thought on schools: Given the current direction of education and the pressures to perform on academic tests and teach to tests, there is a clear need for more research exploring the connection between fitness and academic performance. This is an actionable idea for our generous host, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...