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Obesity - Woman
Calories   Epidemic   Health   Obesity   Photos   		 The Boston Globe 
Kicking the obesity epidemic
| While Michelle Obama is campaigning against childhood obesity, there's Charles Barkley on TV hawking Taco Bell's NBA Five Buck Box. The extra-large former basketball All-Star raps about the box's cr... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Ted Strickland
Education   Environment   Photos   US   Women   		 The Examiner 
Gov. Strickland launches Council on Women and Girls as report shows mothers now primary breadwinners
| Frances Strickland works on education, the environment, renewable energy, and inclusion. (Photo/Gov.Ohio) If you like this ... Ohioans asked to help select next great Ohioan to join Statuary Hall Co... (photo: Public Domain / Csambuchino)
In this Nov. 10, 2008 file photo, Robert Gibbs, right, stands with President-elect Barack Obama, left, on his plane after a visit to the White House in Washington. Gibbs has been at the side of President-elect Barack Obama since his Senate campaign in 2004. Two of the top qualities Robert Gibbs brings to the job of White House press secretary aren't found on his resume: He won't flinch at telling it like it is to the next president or telling it like he thinks it ought to be to the media.  Kansas City Star 
Gibbs brushes off resigned congressman's complaint
More News | President Obama's spokesman is brushing aside allegations by a resigned New York congressman who says he was forced out by the administration and Democratic leaders because of his oppositi... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak, File)
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The Effects Of Obesity, Smoking, And Drinking On Medical Problems And Costs
| Roland Sturm | This paper compares the effects of obesity, overweight, smoking, and problem drinking on health care use and health status based on national survey data. Obesity has roughly the same ... (photo: WN / sweet)
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Poor child begging food or money from commuters or passengers in Alabang, Philippines Inquirer
How to get the poor out of Dante's inferno
| (Sixth of a series) | MANILA, Philippines—Rodolfo Socorro came a long way from his picture-pretty coconut farm to see a vision turn into a nightmare a day after his arr... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Development   Manila   Nightmare   Photos   Society  
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, center, gestures upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
Biden Arrives in Israel on Trip to Restart Peace Talks
| JERUSALEM — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in Israel on Monday, culminating a two-month procession of high-ranking Americans seeking to restart Israel... (photo: AP / Baz Ratner, Pool)
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Barack Obama and Yukio Hatoyama take their sites in Tokyo.jpg Kansas City Star
Obama tells voters to push Congress for health care
More News | President Barack Obama took his pitch for health care legislation on the road Monday, urging voters in suburban Philadelphia to make their voices heard above ... (photo: Public Domain / TCY)
Health   Obama   Photos   US   World  
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech during a graduation at the New Economic School, in Moscow, Tuesday, July 7, 2009. USA Today
Obama takes hard-sell health pitch to Pa.
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Spencer Platt, Getty Images President Obama gives a spirited speech on health care legislation Monday a... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Main sea beach of New Digha. The Daily Beast
Take Action!
| Has Women in the World inspired you to help empower women and girls throughout the world? To end child marriage, sex slavery, genital mutilation, and mass rape? Here&rs... (photo: GFDL / gangulybiswarup)
Empowerment   Equality   Human Rights   Photos   Women  
President Obama describes how more American families will have more control over their health care this year, after health reform passes. The Press Democrat
Obama's closed-door policy
| It didn’t have to be this way. For a brief moment last year it appeared that Obama might realign the modern political map, cementing the Latino vote into the Demo... (photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy)
Democratic   Obama   Photos   Politics   Washington  
Sleeping - Woman USA Today
Americans of all races don't get enough sleep
Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |  DIFFERENCES AMONG GROUPS | Least amount of sleep weekday nights: African Americans (6 hours, 14 minutes) |... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Americans   Disorder   Health   Photos   Sleep  
Be smart when renovating that new home and think green! China Daily
British buyers yet to warm to green home buzz
| LONDON - The British building industry wants to ease green home standards as the public balk at the 20 percent or higher costs of low-carbon homes, exhibitors told a ma... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
Britain   Environment   Home   People   Photos  
GlaxoSmithKline Building This Day
GSK Slashes Cancer Vaccine Price
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world today to mark the International Women’s Day, Multinational Pharmaceutical Company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has announced a reduction... (photo: Creative Commons / Jim Linwood)
Cancer   Health   Nigeria   Photos   Vaccine  
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