Vegans make up only a sliver of the thousands of competitive bodybuilders in the United States, but they have been a steady presence since the 2000s.
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Vegans Muscle Their Way Into Bodybuilding
The Los Angeles Times has the story of a healthy school lunch policy gone awry. It focuses on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to bring healthy, fresh options into schools. High school students, perhaps unsurprisingly, would prefer to eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by the thousands, a black market for unhealthful contraband is thriving and school officials are thinking about bringing back the exact foods they meant to push out: Read full article > >
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Building a junk food black market
It has been a pre-Thanksgiving ritual for many in the Washington area, an opportunity to reflect on personal good fortune, get some fresh air and spend a few hours walking for a humanitarian cause. But on Saturday, the thousands of marchers in the 24th annual Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon gathered on the Mall for one last time. Read full article > >
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Fannie Mae’s walk for the homeless takes its final lap
A rights group says that former rebel fighters have tortured some of the detainees swept up by the thousands in Tripoli, Libya.
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Anti-Qaddafi Fighters Are Accused of Torture
The massive wildfire in Arizona broke an ominous record Tuesday, becoming the state’s largest-ever blaze. However, the thousands of firefighters charged with containing it claimed some progress, calling it close to 20 percent contained. The fire has…
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AZ Fire Breaks State Record
The highlight of Sunday night’s Sugarland concert didn’t arrive until the last few minutes of the show. “We’re sure everybody heard it was supposed to be the Rapture. Well, we’re all still here…so we thought maybe we should have a gigantic party,” lead singer Jennifer Nettles announced before the concert’s final song to the thousands crammed into Merriweather Post Pavillion. Suddenly, opening acts Little Big Town and Matt Nathanson appeared on stage for a rousing rendition of REM’s “It’s the End of the World (As We Know It),” complete with tambourines. Read full article > >
Among the thousands still missing in Japan is American Taylor Anderson, who had been living and teaching in northeastern Japan since August 2008. The Richmond, Virginia, native is 24 years old. Anderson was last seen just after the earthquake on March…
A new centre opens designed to help some of the thousands of people who have been raped in DR Congo.
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New rape centre opens in DR Congo
On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like a giant playground. Everything was accessible to me. Pro-democracy and anti-regime chants rose and fell. read more
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In Tahrir
For the thousands of British troops serving in Afghanistan, being able to open presents from home on Christmas Day is a big boost to morale.
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Inside the British Forces post office
The U.S. military has only minimal knowledge of – and exercises virtually no control over – the thousands of Afghans it indirectly pays to guard its installations, including “warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping, bribery” and to the Taliban, Senate investigators said in a blistering…
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U.S. contract failures said to aid the enemy
