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...course, whether a child can--or, rather, should--diet is a more complex question. Most clinicians don't even like to use the word; instead, they talk about "lifestyle changes" and "weight-management protocols." Says nutritionist and family therapist Ellyn Satter of Madison, Wis., considered by many a pioneer in the field of child feeding: "Even the most conventional people will say, 'Don't put kids on diets,' but then they'll go on to talk about how you should reduce their sugar or fat intake. There's an awful lot of dieting in disguise...
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...Pixar astonishment WALL?E has virtually no dialogue. Nor does it offer a Star Wars--like print crawl to inform viewers that this is Earth 800 years from now. The mechanical critter who is the film's hero can speak only in electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow the visual clues and game enough to play along...
...renewed interest? One word: Vélib. Paris launched the Vélib program a year ago, and while très cheap (its name is French shorthand for "free bike"), it's actually not free. Although places like Copenhagen, Lyons and Barcelona are big on bike-sharing, the City of Lights boasts the crème de la crème, with 20,600 bikes and about 1,450 stations--four times the number of Parisian metro stops. It's hard to walk more than two blocks without running into a bike rack, which helps explain why the program has already yielded...
Thirty years later, a filmmaker asked Berger's father what he thought of McKay. As McKay would have, Dr. Benjamin Berger found just the right word--in this case, the Yiddish term for a man of character. Said Berger: "[Jim McKay] is a mensch...