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After her flameout on stickK, Sisson is working hard to make good on her goal on HealthyWage. With a steady weight loss of 4 lb. in four weeks, she may win the prize money in 2010. But the even greater challenge, Volpp says, will be keeping the weight off. Little is known about the link between financial incentives and long-term weight loss. Maybe by 2011 a website will start offering cash bonuses to users who maintain a healthy weight...
...Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government shortly before leaving office, Bush made Obama's job a lot easier - because that agreement sets a cast-iron deadline for withdrawing all U.S. troops. Obama may press for an earlier drawdown to free up resources for Afghanistan, but even if he doesn't, the SOFA requires that all U.S. troops be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Iraq remains far from stable, and the Obama Administration is working through diplomatic channels to cajole the Iraqis into managing their ethnic and sectarian political struggles, but with the same diminished...
...Ukraine. Those policies originated with the Clinton Administration rather than with Bush, and they have locked Moscow into a strategic competition with Washington - talk of a reset button is unlikely to change that. Sure, Obama is negotiating new arms-control treaties with Moscow, but that's vintage Cold War. Even then, Russia is playing hardball and looks set to continue making its decisions based on a strategic rivalry with the U.S. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...realpolitik has seen him refrain from some of the largely symbolic irritants to the U.S.-China relationship that Bush was willing to risk, such as meeting with the Dalai Lama or going to church in Beijing to express solidarity with Chinese Christians, but then, Obama's America is even more financially dependent on China's goodwill than Bush's was. (See pictures of Obama in Asia...
Faced with escalating turmoil, Iran's newly militarized regime now appears to be turning to the Tiananmen model to ensure its survival. The theocracy has signaled over the past week that it will exercise extraordinary military and judicial powers against opposition leaders, dissidents, street protesters and even sympathizers to end the growing turmoil. The regime's most urgent goal is to prevent opposition activists from turning next month's 11-day celebration marking the Shah's ouster in 1979 into a counterrevolution against his successors...