Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler: The Survival of the Fattest
Over the past few decades, many Americans have grown fat and are growing fatter. More than 27 percent of us are obese. This is a genuine personal and social problem, because obesity is associated with heart disease, diabetes, and many other life-threatening conditions. Why are so many Americans fat?
I'd love to ask zENmAN if he's gone through any of those
doors and ended up in Topeka, or if he's ever ran into a gunslinger
named Roland with two
missing fingers, or if he
walks behind the doors, do they disappear ... Anyone who's read
Stephen King's 7-part The Dark Tower series will know
what I mean.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'The Amazing Race', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Grease: You're The One That I Want', then a RERUN'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Apprentice'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CWRERUNs'Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For The Next Pussy' for the 3rd time, followed by a RERUN'7th Heaven', then a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'War At Home', followed by a FRESH'War At Home', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has the movie 'Tomcats', followed by the movie 'Maid In Manhattan'.
A&E has 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', yet another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', followed by 'Gene Simmons Family', then another 'Gene Simmons Family', 'Criss Angel', and another 'Criss Angel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Scent Of A Woman', followed by the movie 'Scent Of A Woman', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[12:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 3;
[1:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[1:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[2:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3;
[2:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2;
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8;
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[6:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[6:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
[8:00 PM] The Madness Of Prince Charles - The Madness Of Prince Charles;
[9:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8;
[10:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ Overtime - Episode 10;
[10:30 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[11:00 PM] The Madness Of Prince Charles - The Madness Of Prince Charles;
[12:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8;
[1:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ Overtime - Episode 10;
[1:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[2:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 3 Playhouse;
[3:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 1 The Man With Two Legs;
[3:40 AM] Coupling - Ep. 2 My Dinner In Hell;
[4:20 AM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[5:00 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[5:30 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', 'Bill Engvall: 15 Degrees Off Cool', and 'Bill Engvall: 15 Degrees Off Cool', again.
FX has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', then 'Dirt'.
History has has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ancient Discoveries', another 'Ancient Discoveries', and still another 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] Lucia, Lucia;
[08:10 AM] ¡Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!;
[09:40 AM] IFC News Special;
[09:50 AM] Strictly Ballroom;
[11:30 AM] Muriel's Wedding;
[01:20 PM] Lucia, Lucia;
[03:15 PM] Moulin Rouge;
[05:30 PM] The Last Days of Chez Nous;
[07:15 PM] Proof;
[09:00 PM] The Hard Word;
[10:50 PM] Glengarry Glen Ross;
[12:35 AM] Proof;
[02:10 AM] The Hard Word;
[04:00 AM] Glengarry Glen Ross;
[05:45 AM] Media Lab Shorts Uploaded. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps', followed by a FRESH'The Dresden Files', then the SEASON FINALE'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[07:30 AM] Dallas 362;
[09:15 AM] To Be and To Have;
[11:00 AM] Iconoclasts: Renee Zellweger;
[11:45 AM] Small Town Secrets;
[12:00 PM] Where Angels Fear to Tread;
[02:00 PM] One Punk Under God: Episode 3;
[02:30 PM] Lurch;
[03:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 1;
[03:30 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 2;
[04:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 3;
[04:30 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 4;
[05:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 5;
[05:30 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 6;
[06:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 7;
[06:30 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 8;
[07:00 PM] TransGeneration: TransGeneration Reunion;
[07:30 PM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 1 - A Glimmer in the Eye;
[08:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 3: Episode 6: Promised End;
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts: Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour;
[10:00 PM] Where Angels Fear to Tread;
[12:00 AM] Vital;
[01:30 AM] Buried in the Backyard;
[02:00 AM] Slings & Arrows - Season 3: Episode 6: Promised End;
[03:00 AM] Iconoclasts: Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour;
[03:45 AM] Dallas 362;
[05:30 AM] Jesus Christ Superstar. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Aretha Franklin, left, poses for a photograph with Darlene Love, a cast member of the Broadway show 'Hairspray', Friday, Mar. 23, 2007 in New York. Franklin attended the show tonight with friends to celebrate her birthday, which is on Sunday.
Photo by Shiho Fukada
A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material after agreeing to settle the case.
As part of an agreement reached this week, the Joyce estate said it would not sue scholar Carol Schloss for copyright infringement if the books, manuscripts and other documents she wants to cite both in print and on a Web site were only made available in the United States.
The dispute involved Shloss' research for "Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake," a 2003 book in which she suggested that James Joyce's mentally ill daughter was the muse behind "Finnegans Wake." To support her theory, Shloss relied on Lucia Joyce's medical records, European archives that contained records on her life and Joyce's papers in university collections.
The estate challenged Schloss' authority to quote or footnote the material, however, saying she would be infringing on its ownership of Joyce's image.
Dennis Haysbert, left, stands with Pam Grier at the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters awards dinner Friday, March 23, 2007, in Washington. Haysbert was honored as Entertainer of the Year and Grier was presented with the Pioneer in Entertainment Award.
Photo by Ron Thomas
The grand piano Frederic Chopin took on his last concert tour has been found in an English country house thanks to detective work by a Swiss musical scholar.
For more than 150 years after the composer's death, Chopin's piano vanished until Professor Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger researched the ledgers of French pianomaker Camille Pleyel.
The scholar, who had met Alec Cobbe at a Chopin conference, came to see the collector armed with details of where and to whom all the Pleyel pianos were sold.
By its serial number, he was able to identify Cobbe's piano as the one the Polish-born composer brought to Britain on a farewell tour in 1848.
A rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence sold at auction for $477,650 by a man who found it last year in a Nashville thrift store for $2.48.
Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, sold the document Thursday at Raynors' Historical Collectible Auctions in Burlington, N.C.
Sparks found his bargain last March while browsing at Music City Thrift Shop. When he asked the price on a yellowed, shellacked, rolled-up document, the clerk marked it at $2.48 plus tax.
The document turned out to be an "official copy" of the Declaration of Independence - one of 200 commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820 when he was secretary of state and printed by William Stone in 1823.
An Irrawaddy dolphin, also known as the Mekong dolphin, swims in the river at the Kampi village in Kratie province, 230 km (143 miles) northeast of Cambodia, March 24, 2007 .Cambodia's rare Mekong dolphin is making a tentative comeback from the edge of extinction after net fishing was banned in its main habitat, Cambodian and World Wildlife Fund officials said earlier this month.
Photo by Chor Sokunthea
What many believe to be the only painting of Jane Austen will be auctioned in New York in April by Christie's, a relation of the English author and owner of the picture said.
But Henry Rice, a "sixth generation descendant" of the writer of classics such as "Emma," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," believes the sale of a picture that has divided experts will not be without controversy.
Rice and his family never doubted the lively girl wearing a long white dress and carrying a parasol was their ancestor. The painting is thought to have been made in 1788 or 1789 when Austen would have been about 14.
Two freelance photographers are suing Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson, charging that Richards assaulted them when they tried to take her picture and that the women lied about the scuffle.
According to the lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Richards and Anderson were at the River Rock Casino Resort in British Columbia, Canada, on Nov. 9, 2006, to work on the upcoming film "Blonde and Blonder."
When Richards saw Scott Cosman and Rik Fedyck taking her picture, according to the lawsuit, she became enraged, called them "paparazzi scum" and other names, assaulted them, seized their laptop computers and threw the laptops over a hotel balcony.
Afterward, they said, Richards and Anderson "made repeated false and defamatory statements to law enforcement and various media outlets which were deliberately calculated to embarrass, humiliate and ridicule plaintiffs."
Anthony Pellicano, the jailed private eye under federal indictment in a Hollywood wiretaps case, married his former wife in a courtroom ceremony Friday.
While the couple sealed their union with a passionate kiss, prosecutors may suspect a less romantic reason for the wedding - to keep Kat Pellicano from testifying in the case.
The U.S. attorney's spokesman declined comment on the marriage. But Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor, said prosecutors may suspect that the marriage is intended to "freeze out" Kat Pellicano as a witness for the prosecution.
U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been denied a visa to enter Britain on a European tour, is seeking to have the decision overturned, a spokeswoman said on Saturday.
The 35-year old, arrested during a disturbance at London's Heathrow airport last year, had been due to perform with fellow U.S. rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, at Wembley Arena in London on Tuesday, followed by gigs in Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow, and Nottingham.
Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, had been performing concerts with Combs, once his bitter rival in a notorious feud between the east and west coast U.S. hip-hop scenes in the 1990s.
A nomad rides a camel during the IV Nomadic International Festival in M'hamid El Ghizlane, north Sahara, near Ouarzazate, March 24, 2007. The objective of the festival is to show a disappearing nomadic culture.
Photo by Rafael Marchante
University of Florida President Bernie Machen says he was "tremendously disappointed" with the school's Faculty Senate vote to deny former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree.
The Senate voted 38-28 Thursday against giving the honorary degree to Bush, who left office in January.
University officials said they could not recall any precedent for the Senate rejecting the nominees put forth by the Faculty Senate's Honorary Degrees, Distinguished Alumnus Awards and Memorials Committee. The committee determines whether nominees deserve consideration according to standards that include "eminent distinction in scholarship or high distinction in public service."
A judge ordered the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department on Friday to set a date to auction the rights to O.J. Simpson's book, "If I Did It."
The book, in which Simpson explains how he might have committed the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, is the subject of a legal battle between the former NFL star and Goldman's family.
Earlier this month, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered the book rights to be auctioned off with proceeds from the auction and any subsequent book profits turned over to Goldman's family. Judge Gerald Rosenberg also ruled the rights of Lorraine Brooke Associates, a Florida-based company that struck the book deal with HarperCollins, be included in the auction.
Paramilitary recruits march in step during a skills test after a 3-month training period at an army base in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province March 24, 2007. China is far from catching up to the United States as a military power, and the Pentagon will conduct exercises with the Chinese to gauge their intentions, tactics and strategy, the U.S. admiral set to take command of U.S. operations in the Pacific said.
Photo by Sheng Li
Zhou Guizhen's crooked little bound feet never carried her far beyond the sun-cracked mud brick walls of her village until she started dancing to disco music.
As Zhou fondly remembered her dancing days she said she was now too old for it and only a handful of the members of her troupe from Liuyi were still alive.
Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911.
An albino baby wallaby peers out of his mother's pouch at 'Le Cornelle' zoo park in Valbrembo, Italy, Friday, March 23, 2007. The uncommon birth took place on March 18, 2007. This smaller cousin of the kangaroo, also known as Bennett's Wallaby, is common in eastern Australia and a mature specimen averages a weight between 10 and 15 kilograms. The cub normally remains in his mother's pouch for some 6 months after the birth.
Photo by Luca Bruno
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