The Latest Word on The Fat of the Land
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America is still gaining weight. Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia are the three states with the highest rates of obesity, according to a new report by the nonprofit advocacy group Trust for America's Health. In all three states, nearly three of every 10 adults tip the scales with a body mass...
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New data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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The following story contains the latest information known as of 23:30 CET on Monday, and will be updated as new information comes in.
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By Don Jergler, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.  Sep.
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By Daniel Carson, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Sep.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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By Daniel Carson, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec.
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By Bill White / Bwhite@adn.Com And Don Hunter / Dhunter@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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Macs, movies, and motorcycles will make news next week. Really.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a global snapshot shows.