The byline: "Ex-inmate, like Graves, has been dunned 21 years for child support owed during time he served for crime he didn't commit" - the "kids" in question are now aged 35 and 39.
A reduction in saturated fat but none in weight. Their "control group" seems not so much like a control group: "who either replaced their dairy products with low-fat varieties for six months or got advice about reducing screen time instead as a control." It seems like an alternate option was evaluated rather than not switching to low-fat milk. Personally I'm not a big fan of the push for low-fat foods.
Not quite as random as how to make beef stroganoff while fighting off a ninja but fairly random nonetheless. (Although I think that this song has gotten a fair bit of radio airplay).
The New York Times reviews a book with a more optimistic outlook on population aging, concluding that "Each of the ideas makes theoretical sense, but where is the money, momentum and institutional power to move them off the whiteboard and into practice? Here, the book is largely silent."
Vijay Bharati: "It took us so many years to demonstrate that poor women are creditworthy too. But the women who were so regular in repaying for the last 15 years are now waiting for a waiver of their loans. This is damaging our movement." While microcredit was once failed as to the solution to so many problems in recent years repayment fell not by but to20%. Of course, if governments are willing to bail out the big banks...
Call me crazy but I'm going to side with the police on this one: they've "traditionally been allowed 25cl of wine or a small beer with their main meal of the day."
Per the paper this Economist article links, "[T]o be deemed cost-effective, [the increased expenditures] would have to deter, prevent, foil, or protect against 1,667 otherwise successful Times-Square type attacks per year, or more than four per day."
