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...obesity problem has become a full-blown crisis. Even the stubbornest new arrivals may find that their food practices are impossible to maintain in a new environment, where familiar ingredients aren't available, old-world holidays aren't observed and the Mediterranean tradition of the heavy lunch must yield to the less healthy practice of postponing the big meal until the end of the day. "There's a lot of food-related culture shock for new immigrants," says anthropologist David Himmelgreen of the University of South Florida in Tampa...
...tank took a direct hit--I never knew whether from the enemy or our own tanks--and the whole crew was killed. After we took another hit, we found a little wood and dug in. The order to all tank units, maybe from the Fuhrer, was not to yield a single meter. Before I slept that night under my tank, I wrote an angry letter home. As a young officer, I thought we could have broken the invasion if we'd been better...
...companies are spending again. More than a million jobs have been created since August, and economic growth should exceed 4% the rest of the year. The recovery bodes well for wages and job creation, even, at long last, for conservative savers who have been unable to find money-market yields much above 1% for several years. This is the good news we have all been waiting for. Yet Wall Street has been acting as if something were terribly wrong. Long-term interest rates are notching higher, a clear sign that some perceive the investment climate as riskier. The 10-year...
...noted that the number of minority students in the Class of 2008 increased this year. Of incoming first-years, 19.7 percent are Asian Americans, compared to 18 percent for the Class of 2007. The number of African-American students also rose by 0.4 percent to 9.2 percent, and the yield for African-American students rose from 66.5 percent to 70 percent. Also on the rise is the number of Latino students, who will make up 8.9 percent of the Class of 2008. Native Americans, whose yield jumped from 60 to 94.4 percent, will constitute 1.1 percent...
...high yield on women [this year] is an encouraging sign that talented women seem every more able to take advantage of great opportunities!” she writes...