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...answer to much of this - as is so often the case - is better diet, more exercise and early detection. Such preventive measures form one of the cornerstones of the ongoing health-care debate - one of the few points on which nearly all sides can agree. The authors of the new study call for physicians to be reimbursed for heart-disease-prevention measures like working with their patients to develop weight-loss and smoking-cessation plans and to be allowed enough breathing room in their schedules to let them do good cardiac assessments. Schools and workplaces, the paper argues, should also...
...inmates early. "The pressure in state legislatures all over the country is to bring down the populations, because we just can't afford the level of punishment that we've had the last 20 years," says Joan Petersilia, a criminologist at Stanford Law School. (Read "Experts: Street Crime Too Often Blamed on Gangs...
...Foreign governments can (and often do) throw up their hands at the sheer unpredictability of U.S. politics, the ways in which deals cooked up behind closed doors by sophisticated officials have a habit of blowing up when exposed to the bracing inquiry of congressional leaders and their lobbyist friends. That can, indeed, be a trial. On the other hand, the evidence of the last 200 years or so would suggest that the U.S. political system has not served its nation badly. As David Brooks of the New York Times argued recently, "the founders created a government that was cautious...
...factories. Hundreds of small family farms provide safe, healthy food to their communities, even though they do not farm organically. These farmers rely on pasturing, sanitary conditions and care to keep their animals healthy and happy, without depleting the environment. While local food will always cost more, it is often more affordable and offers many of the health benefits of organic food. Emily Everett, WILLIAMSBURG...
...whose appeal is as much theatrical as musical. Truth is, the Beatles, even in their touring days, didn't care much for performing; they couldn't hear themselves play over their fans' screams. From 1966 on, they were studio musicians, and when McCartney composed his artful melodies, he often did it not on guitar but on piano. (See the 10 greatest electric-guitar players of all time...