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Bassett isn't just talking about neglected gym memberships and people who sit on the couch all day. Physical activity can be something as simple as walking to the bus stop. That's another problem, by the way: the South doesn't have many bus stops. Public transportation is paltry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Southerners So Fat? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents' best efforts to paint him as a radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: Getting Down to the Hard Choices | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

At such a distant second, it is perhaps not surprising that Megawati, both a former President and daughter of the country's founding father, Sukarno, would begin to point fingers in the eleventh hour. Current Vice President Jusuf Kalla has also voiced concern over voter fraud. It remains to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Indonesia's Election Day Nears, Complaints of Fraud Grow Louder | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

That's more than a little surprising when you consider that Mexico has overtaken Canada in production of GM vehicles, making such popular name plates as the Chevy Silverado and Suburban. Last year GM made a total of 504,858 vehicles at four assembly plants in Mexico; that's 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Spends Big to Save GM, So Why Not Mexico? | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

This turns out to be true across the economic spectrum. The groundbreaking research on the effects of divorce on children from middle- and upper-income households comes from a surprising source: a Princeton sociologist and single mother named Sara McLanahan, who decided to study the fates of these children with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Hope for the American Marriage? | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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