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WORLD'S POOR CAN'T AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET
POLITICS, UK - New research by Save the Children has revealed that in
order to feed their family a healthy diet the world's poorest people are
facing food costs that are more than three times their income. . . The
research, carried out in four locations in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Myanmar
and Tanzania, showed that between 15 (in Ethiopia) and 79 (in
Bangladesh) per cent of households simply couldn't afford to feed their
children a healthy diet. The estimated cost of a healthy diet for the
poorest in the study locations in the four countries would be like an
average household in the UK facing a weekly shopping bill of up to
L1,700. . .
Chronic malnutrition is responsible for 5.6 million child deaths a year.
Millions more children around the world will be stunted because of this
persistent hunger, which will affect their entire lives - they will be
less well developed both mentally and physically, more prone to disease,
and when they reach adulthood will be weaker and less able to do manual
work. Poverty is the underlying cause beneath this silent emergency.
http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/zopinion-former-
index/equality/save-children-reveals-real-cost-diet-poorest-$475697.htm
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THE BRITISH POLICE STATE
GUARDIAN, UK - The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers
in Scotland, chief constable Colin McKerracher of Grampian police, said
he was confident police had "everything we need" in the current
investigation in terms of terror legislation. However, he added that he
expected Scottish police to be temporarily granted extra stop-and-search
powers by the Home Office in the wake of the Glasgow incident. . . He
said: "We have applied for the authorization to utilise stop-and-search
and that is across every community in Scotland. That will be done
sensitively and in situations where officers on the ground feel that is
appropriate."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2116550,00.html
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SARKOZY'S JOGGING RAISES POLITICAL HACKLES
CHARLES BREMMER, TIMES, UK - President Sarkozy has fallen foul of
intellectuals and critics who see his passion for jogging as un-French,
right-wing and even a ploy to brainwash his citizens.
Attacks on Mr Sarkozy's pastime, which he has made a symbol of his
presidency, began on the internet as soon as he bounded up the steps of
the Elysee Palace in shorts when he took office in May. That moment has
become the icon of his hyperenergetic administration. The grumbling has
now moved to television and the press.
"Is jogging right wing?" wondered Liberation, the left-wing newspaper.
Alain Finkelkraut, a celebrated philosopher, begged Mr Sarkozy on France
2, the main state television channel, to abandon his "undignified"
pursuit. He should take up walking, like Socrates, Arthur Rimbaud, the
poet, and other great men, said Mr Finkelkraut.
"Western civilisation, in its best sense, was born with the promenade.
Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act. Jogging is management of the
body. The jogger says I am in control. It has nothing to do with
meditation."
Mr Sarkozy's habit infuriates his critics - and some supporters -
because he flaunts it so hard. Le running du President, often clad in
his favourite NYPD T-shirt, has become a ritual, like King Louis XIV's
rides at Versailles. He has practiced it at summits in Brussels and
Germany and he is looking forward to a bonding jog with Jose Socrates,
the Prime Minister of Portugal, which took over the European Union
presidency this week.
Until "Speedy Sarko" won office, French heads of state shunned physical
exercise in public.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2022804.ece
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WORLD'S POOR CAN'T AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET
POLITICS, UK - New research by Save the Children has revealed that in
order to feed their family a healthy diet the world's poorest people are
facing food costs that are more than three times their income. . . The
research, carried out in four locations in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Myanmar
and Tanzania, showed that between 15 (in Ethiopia) and 79 (in
Bangladesh) per cent of households simply couldn't afford to feed their
children a healthy diet. The estimated cost of a healthy diet for the
poorest in the study locations in the four countries would be like an
average household in the UK facing a weekly shopping bill of up to
L1,700. . .
Chronic malnutrition is responsible for 5.6 million child deaths a year.
Millions more children around the world will be stunted because of this
persistent hunger, which will affect their entire lives - they will be
less well developed both mentally and physically, more prone to disease,
and when they reach adulthood will be weaker and less able to do manual
work. Poverty is the underlying cause beneath this silent emergency.
http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/zopinion-former-
index/equality/save-children-reveals-real-cost-diet-poorest-$475697.htm
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THE BRITISH POLICE STATE
GUARDIAN, UK - The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers
in Scotland, chief constable Colin McKerracher of Grampian police, said
he was confident police had "everything we need" in the current
investigation in terms of terror legislation. However, he added that he
expected Scottish police to be temporarily granted extra stop-and-search
powers by the Home Office in the wake of the Glasgow incident. . . He
said: "We have applied for the authorization to utilise stop-and-search
and that is across every community in Scotland. That will be done
sensitively and in situations where officers on the ground feel that is
appropriate."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2116550,00.html
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SARKOZY'S JOGGING RAISES POLITICAL HACKLES
CHARLES BREMMER, TIMES, UK - President Sarkozy has fallen foul of
intellectuals and critics who see his passion for jogging as un-French,
right-wing and even a ploy to brainwash his citizens.
Attacks on Mr Sarkozy's pastime, which he has made a symbol of his
presidency, began on the internet as soon as he bounded up the steps of
the Elysee Palace in shorts when he took office in May. That moment has
become the icon of his hyperenergetic administration. The grumbling has
now moved to television and the press.
"Is jogging right wing?" wondered Liberation, the left-wing newspaper.
Alain Finkelkraut, a celebrated philosopher, begged Mr Sarkozy on France
2, the main state television channel, to abandon his "undignified"
pursuit. He should take up walking, like Socrates, Arthur Rimbaud, the
poet, and other great men, said Mr Finkelkraut.
"Western civilisation, in its best sense, was born with the promenade.
Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act. Jogging is management of the
body. The jogger says I am in control. It has nothing to do with
meditation."
Mr Sarkozy's habit infuriates his critics - and some supporters -
because he flaunts it so hard. Le running du President, often clad in
his favourite NYPD T-shirt, has become a ritual, like King Louis XIV's
rides at Versailles. He has practiced it at summits in Brussels and
Germany and he is looking forward to a bonding jog with Jose Socrates,
the Prime Minister of Portugal, which took over the European Union
presidency this week.
Until "Speedy Sarko" won office, French heads of state shunned physical
exercise in public.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2022804.ece
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