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...Talking Boards. Another learned German attacked another mystery, the strange written language of Easter Island, in the South Pacific. The island's most famous feature is its great stone statues, of unknown workmanship, that stare out to sea with thin-lipped scorn, but scholars are even more fascinated by the "talking boards": pieces of wood carved with close-packed characters...
...shot of four fat roaches, tied at intervals along a piece of string. They struggle in the dust, their bright legs flailing in desperation, but they cannot escape the fateful thread that links them one to another-links them, perhaps, to some higher meaning? The camera lifts, to stare at a small boy who stares down mindlessly at his wretched playthings. After a while he picks up the string and wanders away...
Obesity, the direct result of overeating, has been definitely proved to shorten life, Dr. Frederick J. Stare, chairman of the department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said in the current issue of the U.S. News and World Report...
...Stare, in a seven page feature interview, urged obese persons to reduce, since losing weight will increase the life span of overweight individuals. A fat adult male in the age range 20-29 has an 80 per cent higher mortality rate than the average male of the same age group, he said...
...several suggestions on how to eat less fattening meals, Stare stressed the importance of a large breakfast, because it elevates the blood sugar, which regulates the appetite. When the level of blood sugar is kept high, an individual feels less hungry. This objective can also be obtained, he continued, "by nibbling a short time before a meal...