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...they have launched an ambitious state-sponsored effort to head off weight gain before it reaches American proportions. Le Guen is backing several bills in the National Assembly that would regulate diet and exercise nationwide. Starting this fall, vending machines will be banned from all public schools and universities. Ten cities have adopted a school curriculum, based on eating well and in moderation, developed in Fleurbaix Laventie, a small town near the Belgian border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From age 3, students work with nutritionists to learn food science...
...Columbus, Ohio--Scarborough believes that "activist" judges have imposed their personal beliefs by creating new rights on abortion, gay marriage and pornography that aren't expressly stated in the Constitution. They say those same judges have also restricted freedom of religion by, for example, ordering the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the Alabama state supreme court. Last week's federal-court decision overturning Nebraska's gay-marriage ban has only added fuel to the right's fire. Thus, Scarborough is spending most of his time these days working to beat back Democrats' attempts to block...
...they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer and leader of a human-rights group in Andijan, told Time that "hundreds" of civilians had been killed. Several thousand more reportedly fled for the Kyrgyz border. The rebels denied they...
...minds at ease. Bush's biking partner for the day, Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts of steamy sex-play-and had returned Bush's copy that day. Sources familiar with Bush's current bedside favorites say he is reading The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recommended the book, and now Bush is encouraging his staff to read it too. They'll get to it soon enough. They're all still reading I am Charlotte Simmons...
...least ten members of the Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) appeared at the meeting to support the bill...