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...might have heard, gas prices are at an all-time high, recently breaking the $4-a-gallon barrier. Here in New York City, where I live, a gallon of regular will set you back $4.31. Though high gas prices have caused Americans to drive less - 11 billion fewer miles this March compared to a year earlier - and have boosted sales of fuel-efficient cars, there's not a whole lot that most of us can do about the problem except complain. A lot. Very loudly...
...make it easy for those ideas to be heard...
...about it, of course, is going to take more than a vocabulary lesson. But the time is now. According to the HHS, 7 out of 10 overweight adolescents will become overweight adults. If the adolescent has an overweight parent, that figure rises to 8 out of 10. Parents have heard the recommendations a million times: Children should be eating five or more servings of fruits and veggies daily. They should be eating breakfast. They should be getting at least one hour of moderate physical activity each day. They should be spending fewer than two hours in front...
Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla may very well be the greatest American hero no one has ever heard of. Rescorla's many friends--from his Army days on--have been advocating a Presidential Medal of Freedom for him. But that has gone nowhere, because to celebrate his achievements and sacrifices on 9/11 calls attention to those--at the Port Authority and elsewhere--who got it all wrong. Steven R. Hansen, JONESBORO, ARIZ...
...studying the hiss of electromagnetic static that bathes the Earth--part of the same hiss you hear on a car radio. Jansky realized that the sound was caused not by atmospheric disturbances but by ancient signals streaming to us from the very center of the galaxy. What everyone else heard as noise, Gell-Mann says, Jansky heard as a "beautiful regularity." Slowly, we're all learning to listen the same...