Epidemic: Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time. In the novel, The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell he explains m...
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A new $612 million (euro427.7 million) effort hopes to increase physical activity among U.S. students by getting them to bike or walk to school.Today, only about 15 percent of U.S. schoolchildren t...
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Gavin Newsom's super-secret presidential bid, I came across a passage about Rudy Giuliani in the book Santa stuffed in my stocking, The Tipping Point.
The book discusses how ideas and trends becom...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger boasted Wednesday that California's leadership is making environmentalism both sexy and mainstream, not a guilt-driven movement for "tree-huggers" and "fanatics.""Environ...
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The way Simon Cowell sees it, Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis are the most evenly matched "American Idol" finalists yet and either could win Wednesday."It's all to play for. I think it's going to be ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the near-collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that made bad bets on the mortgage market.The SEC inquiry is "informal" at this point and has n...
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Banking regulators on Friday completed guidelines that call on lenders to strictly evaluate borrowers' ability to repay home loans.The guidance issued by the Federal Reserve and the other four fede...
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Washington (dpa) - Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan
hinted Sunday at concern about decades of rising household and
corporate debt in the United States, saying "we...
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When Amy Lovell dropped off her son at school, she had to make sure the fifth-grader didn't dash off without his French horn. It was strapped to the back of her bicycle with a pair of bungee cords ...
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When Amy Lovell dropped off her son at school, she had to make sure the fifth-grader didn't dash off without his French horn. It was strapped to the back of her bicycle with a pair of bungee cords ...
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he is determined to raise Britain's already ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions and to push the nation to the forefront of global efforts to tackl...
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The Tipping Point
US project helps schoolchildren to walk, bike to school
