Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Fat

Cookie Monster, the biscuit-eating puppet on US children's show Sesame Street, will cut down on his favourite food as part of an anti-obesity drive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Iraq's new president Jalal Talabani has restated his support for a continued US and Australian military presence in Iraq,...Branding Sadr a "criminal" who should be arrested...
http://www.abc.net.au/

It was a mourning festival observed with passionate intensity in mosques throughout Iran. But among the affluent and mostly young secular-minded set who had travelled 80 miles north from Tehran with their expensive skiing equipment, it generated an outpouring of surprising - and, in Iran, potentially dangerous - blasphemous sentiments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The rest of the world may be trying to embrace the Mediterranean diet as the key to long life, but the people of Europe’s sunshine belt are abandoning it — and growing fat fast.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

Robots will replace child camel jockeys in UAE
http://story.news.yahoo.com/

3 Comments:

Blogger Michael and Natalie said...

you know im not really surprised about the whole diet thing-i mean, western food (as opposed to the Medditeranean diet) is good. it tastes good, its convenient-so of course its going to catch on-but man, thats a lot of fat kids!

Tue Apr 12, 09:12:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

some of you may not know this, but i was an overweight child

Tue Apr 12, 04:36:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger Matt said...

I call BS.

Tue Apr 12, 09:32:00 PM GMT-7  

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