The number of overweight Americans keeps, umm, ballooning, but why? LiveScience looks past eating self-control and too little exercise to some less-discussed factors. So many of us are fat because of: The government. 29 million Americans instantly became overweight in 1998 when the government lowered the overweight threshold from a…
Continue reading …A lot of people are calling for a US military intervention in Libya, which strikes Charles Krauthammer as odd, since the world so condemned the US for taking out Saddam Hussein. “Hussein’s evil was an order of magnitude beyond Gadhafi’s,” Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post . “Gadhafi is a capricious…
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Federal prosecutors on Friday announced new charges against Jared Loughner, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, accusing him of killing six people and wounding 13 others. (March 4)
Continue reading …Here’s some criminal idiocy for you: A man was arrested in San Diego yesterday after returning to a Jack in the Box he’d allegedly tried to rob the day before. The man, 30-year-old Shawn Dustin Page, allegedly pulled a gun in the restaurant on Wednesday, but fled when the cashier…
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Breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and hormonal therapy may affect the patients’ balance, increasing their risk of falls, a new study shows.
Continue reading …Neither education nor medical care are rights, Rep. Ron Paul told MSNBC—they’re “things that you have to earn.” Host Cenk Uygur asked Paul whether the government should give “a helping hand” to a hypothetical poor child in his district who couldn’t afford tuition, to which Paul replied no. “You’re…
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AP Pro Football Writer Howard Fendrich discusses the agreement by the NFL and players union to extend discussions on a new contract. (March 4)
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At least 17 people were killed in an explosion at an ammunition storage facility at a military base in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in northeastern Libya on Friday, hospital officials said. (March 4)
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Jolicloud’s Jolibook may not be the hottest selling netbook in the universe (or maybe it is, and we just don’t know it), but regardless, it’s certainly quite the eye-catcher. For those who diverted from the paths more beaten and picked one up, we’re keenly interested in finding out how things are going for you. Are you content with the overall design? Would you have changed anything about the operating system? What about that bulging battery? Would you have rather it ran Windows after extended use? Tell all in comments below, and remember — no matter how sour you get, you’ll always have one bodacious looking lid. How would you change Jolicloud’s Jolibook? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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