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...diet study. He suggests that focusing on individual diet plans of any kind may be misguided, and that only community-wide change will truly be able to stem the tide of obesity. He points to a small town in France that tapped all of its residents to solve the problem - building more outdoor-sports facilities and creating walking routes, hosting cooking classes and even intervening with at-risk families. After five years, obesity among children was down to 8.8%, less than half the rate of neighboring towns. That success, he writes, "suggests that we may need a new approach...
...hamstring tear that kept him out of the combine has also kept him off the field so far. He now hopes to be cleared to play in the three exhibition games that the Sounders have scheduled in Buenos Aires.Unfortunately for the senior, staying healthy has always been a problem. Despite the enormous impact he did have, injuries plagued his collegiate career.“The kid was two-time second team All-American when never really healthy,” laughs junior Andre Akpan, Harvard’s new co-captain. “Now he’s finally...
...solve the problem," Obama said at one point. "In our hands lies the ability to shape our world for good or ill," he said at another. He pointed to the gallery, where Ty'Sheoma Bethea, an eighth grader from Dillon, S.C., sat. She had recently written a letter to Congress and the President to ask for help, as her school is crumbling and in need of repair. "We are not quitters," the letter said. Obama faced his audience. "We are not quitters," he repeated. (Read "Sparing a Dime to Save a College...
...critics have begun to question the trend. They call extradition an expensive, overused legal procedure and one that - like most drug-war tools - has failed to stem the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. "Every day we extradite more people, but the problem continues," says Maria Victoria Llorente, director of the Bogotá think tank Ideas for Peace. (While the U.S. says Colombia's cocaine production has decreased from 680 tons in 2002 to 535 tons in 2007, the United Nations says it has increased from 580 tons to 630 in the same period...
...know what became of Iman. Aided by a fixer, I cleared immigration quickly and without incident. Likewise without a problem, TIME's Iraqi security detail drove me into the center of the city on what used to be called the Highway of Death. We passed through several checkpoints on the way that were manned by the Iraqi army and in one case by Ministry of the Interior forces. In each case, the guards waved us through. Above, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters crossed the sky. (See pictures of daily life returning to normal in Baghdad...