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...child is of a fatso slumped in front of a video game, guzzling soft drink and not faintly inclined to venture outside to kick a ball or climb a tree. But this perception buckles under scrutiny. From the SPANS school survey, Michael Booth reports that while few pupils walk to school any more and cycling there has all but vanished, a huge majority are performing the recommended one hour a day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Moreover, both girls and boys are much more active than their counterparts of 1985 and 1997. Booth told his audience in Sydney that...
...Your article about the risk of terrorism [Aug. 21] brought back a bad memory. Thirteen years ago, I was on a plane traveling from my native city, Lucknow, to New Delhi. Fifteen minutes into the flight, I saw a young man walk from his seat into the galley; he was armed with a plastic jar and a matchbox. My worst fears were confirmed a few minutes later on seeing the ashen face of the flight attendant. We had been hijacked. It seems that not much has changed since then. It is better to exercise caution by strengthening security systems...
...words a man who drives a yellow convertible Mini Cooper wants to hear. If brands were looking for someone who was always loved more by his girlfriends' mom than by his girlfriends, then I was going to be filthy rich. But then Jamie added that I also had to walk the line between having women adore me and having men not hate me. That was setting the bar kind of high. After all, if Owen had those things, he'd be Bond...
...with traffic--the number of cars in Kabul has tripled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Garish new building projects loom over some of Kabul's oldest, poorest slums, dramatizing the extent to which the country is beginning to emerge from decades of underdevelopment. A late-afternoon walk through Shar-i-Naw Park offers a glimpse of the country's transformation: while Afghan boys play volleyball and girls mingle uncovered by burqas, local men gather with a member of parliament to voice complaints about the government. Although small-bore, all of those activities happen every day; none were...
...hill, he can land there in a small plane." We called Ramo in Cartagena. Ramo was an expert pilot, a stunt flier and he enthusiastically agreed to meet us in a cow pasture at 7 a.m. We spent the night in a lodge half an hour's walk down the coast...