UK women are now officially the fattest in Europe

Based on the authoritative Eurostat yearbook British women are now leading the chart of obesity of the EU’s 27 member countries. Measured by the Body Mass Index that calculates a height to weight ratio - people are classified as obese if they weigh a fifth more than their ideal maximum weight. A quarter of women and a fifth of men in the UK are now so overweight that their health is at serious risk. The EU statisticians looked only at adult obesity, but previous studies have shown…

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Health: The Challenges of Global Health

US magazine “Foreign Affairs” - one of the most influential publication on international affairs and foreign policy in America - has an excellent opinion piece on Global Health. The 12 page essay was written by Pulitzer Price winner and bestseller writer “Laurie Garrett” who is also well known for her book “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public health”. We strongly recommend reading the document to anybody working in Global Health and to anybody who is interested in what is happening in fighting AIDS, Malaria and TB. We put some quotes together below…

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Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine

To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine “The Atlantic” has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives. As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy - just to name a few.

We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription…

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Quote of the day: UN and Nations

This quote is attributed to Carlos Romulo former president of the UN General Assembly:

“…If there is a problem between a weak nation and another weak nation and the UN takes action, the problem disappears.
If there is a problem between a strong nation and a weak nation and the UN takes action, the weak nation [...]

WSJ: Eighth annual survey of U.S. corporations with the best and worst reputations

Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal released its latest survey about corporate reputations. Microsoft for the first time overtook long time leader Johnson & Johnson as company with the best reputation - due to the positive effects of Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropy. As the WSJ describes…

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UK: Government planning to become Peeping Tom

According to UK daily newspaper “The Sun” the UK Home office is currently planning to put x-ray like devices that could snap “naked” pictures of passers-by into lampposts or otherwise cover public space. While the idea here - as usual - is to trap terror suspects and identify people carrying weapons or explosives, it is unclear how controls or accountability for the use of such systems can be implemented. Officials claim one solution would be to allow only women to monitor female subjects. How this can be done on a public square sounds rather optimistic to us. People living in the UK are today already on average captured 300 times per day by more than 4 million surveillance cameras…

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WEF: Tag Cloud for 26-01-2007

Almost through with searching and processing documents on the World Economic Forum 2007. Here’s the Tag Cloud from documents (304) published on 26-January-2007…

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USA: H. Clinton’s web site traffic peaking

Interest in U.S. Democrats front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be on the rise - at least when you believe in web site statistics. Her web site was this week’s number two of Alexa’s “movers and shakers” with a rise of 40,000% in traffic…

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WEF: Tag Cloud for 25-01-2007

Here is the second part of our World Economic Forum 2007 Tag Clouds from documents (224) published on 25-January-2007…

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WEF: Tag Cloud for 24-01-2007

We went through all documents (143) about the World Economic Forum 2007 published on 24-January-2007 and created this Tag cloud with the top 100 key words. This is the first of a series of tag clouds (one for each day and one overall) we are currently preparing…

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