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The latest "cause" of obesity: indoor heating.

Which explains why we have all those fat people in the tropics, and all those skinny Eskimos and Russians...
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A good discussion of end of life directives with the traditional Navajo, who shun the discussion of death.

but these beliefs are not the same as most tribes, and so the Sioux and Objibwe might suspect the "no treatment" parts are the white man trying to save money, even though they also might refuse extraordinary care at the end of life,or go home to die with their loved ones, or leave the big city hospital to die in the small local IHS hospital where loved ones can be with them.

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Radical feminist leaders criticize the government for promoting marriage.

I'd be more cynical if I wasn't aware that one of these bigshots divorced her abusive husband at 22, and the other a commited marxist who sees marriage as oppression.

but the NYTimes notes that boys without fathers don't fare so well.

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Killer of Africans gets jailtime.

One good reason for Gitmo: and a list of those killed can be found on Wikipedia.

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However, the real news in Africa: The worry about having enough food.

with the droughts in Africa, the floods in Pakistan, and a lot of US corn being made into biofuel, there are rumblings about a food crisis in the third world.

More economic worries: Inflation in China will cause world wide inflation. Places like Algeria already have had riots, and the increase in food prices is partly behind the Jasmine revolution in Tunesia.

which, of course, will mean all that money owed will become magically smaller in real money.

Carter did it, so why not?
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Egypt the next "Jasime revolution"? the real worry is if the radicals in the Arab world take over.

background HERE.
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Bus bombing here in Manila.

Most of these are in the south and related to terrorist groups punishing companies who didn't pay their "tax" (i.e. extortion). But this one used a cellphone to set off the bomb, and reminds the Inquirer of the 2005 bus attacks by the Abusayaf...

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Man bites dog news of the day:

Chinese environmental groups complaining that Apple is poisoning the environment.

The comments are fairly clueless, because I suspect the real reason is that they haven't greased the right palms.

and Iran is blaming the US for all those cybergeeks protesting.
first Twitter and now Tor.

Ah but when heroine of the Islamic revolution and Tehran city council member gets her blog censored, maybe it's not the US formenting all that trouble...
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there has been some press about European and Japanese depopulation in this century, but this article caught my eye:

South Africa to experience population shrinkage starting in 2030.

partly due to HIV, partly from family planning.
But with the extreme poverty in Zim, Mozambique etc. I suspect that the population will continue stable from immigration....