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While it is necessary to inform the public on the health hazards that increase in proportion with that number on the scale, it is just as valuable to emphasize the health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. This shift from disapproval to encouragement would help blunt the stigma of obesity and reshape the distorted lens through which the general public often views fat and food in general. CDC will soon release the true rate of mortality, but no matter its order of magnitude, we must remember that a healthy lifestyle begins with a healthy attitude. It isn?...
While economists celebrated the low unemployment as a sign of a stronger economy, Sue Walsh, the director of Cambridge’s Office of Workforce Development, said that this shift away from blue-collar jobs has hurt workers who are not highly skilled or highly educated...
Take a Segway scooter, add a second pair of wheels and a banana seat, and you've got the Centaur, a concept vehicle that can take on any terrain--rocks, grass, sand, you name it. Like the original Human Transporter, the Centaur uses dynamic-stabilization technology (you shift your weight to steer) but adds a thumb throttle for extra oomph. Steering sensors and a computer conspire to make sure you don't topple over when you pop a wheelie...
...even though playing a pole dancer seems like a stretch, Portman doesn't see this character as being that radical a shift from her past roles. "I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one," she says. "Which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign." Though it's precisely what makes all those men worship her. By Joel Stein
...excellent idea. Another seems to support the transfer of operational control over the use of covert force from the CIA to the Pentagon. That may not be a bad idea, either, but it feeds a fear among some intelligence professionals that with the CIA in tatters, power may shift, subtly, toward the Secretary of Defense. "The militarization of intelligence is a real worry," an intelligence expert told me-and Donald Rumsfeld's intense and, according to several sources, continuing covert opposition to the 9/11 intel recommendations only reinforces those fears...