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Waistlines are measured by employers to determine the overall health of the company. Those with overweight employees are fined, and unhealthy employees are shamed into becoming thinner, else being labeled a “metabo.” Retirees and family members are also included. The question is asked: could this work in the US with our much larger populace?

Mr. Ogushi was actually a little harder on Americans than they deserved. A survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that the average waist size for Caucasian American men was 39 inches, a full inch lower than the 40-inch…

Is Darwin due for an upgrade? There are growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for just such a revision, although they differ about what form this might take.

Transitions between species documented by the fossil record seemed to be abrupt, perhaps too abrupt to be explained by the modern synthesis. If this were generally true, it could render irrelevant much of natural selection occurring within…

In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the countrys history, a plan for the state to buy the nations largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corp.

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. — In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced…

From Scarface? to Miami Vice,? Floridas drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.

“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which…

LADIES! Behold the splendor of the nude male form: sleek and powerful, a miracle of sculpted sinew, striding confidently across the sand or stretching out before you in ever-uncoiling glory. On second thought, perhaps youd prefer not to. So say scientists at the frontiers of research on the eternal question of what women find erotic.

Even in a culture that often cycles through moments of bisexual chic — Britney and Madonna, make way for Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson (photographed smooching in Cannes, France) — and despite survey data showing that…

A victory and a renewed charge toward a 15th championship were within the Los Angeles Lakers grasp. All they needed to do was make free throws, convert a few layups and take advantage of the Boston Celtics sudden ineptitude.

The change of scenery provided a measure of relief for the Lakers, and seemingly a little more respect from the officials. They enjoyed a 14-2 advantage in foul shots in the first quarter, when they built an early lead. Bryant shot eight free…

FTA: “Southern Spain has long been plagued by cyclical droughts, but the current crisis, scientists say, probably reflects a more permanent climate change brought on by global warming. And it is a harbinger of a new kind of conflict.”

“You can’t grow strawberries naturally in Huelva — it’s too hot,” said Raquel Montón, a climate specialist at Greenpeace in Madrid, referring to the nearby strawberry capital of Spain….

After letting her nerves get the best of her in last years final, Ana Ivanovic won the French Open in style on Saturday by defeating Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3.

The differences Saturday were Ivanovic’s forehand, slightly better court coverage and ability to attack Safina’s second serve. Safina still kept it interesting, however, rallying from a 1-4 deficit to 4-4 in the opening…

It’s gone before you even knew it was there: As energy is unlocked from fuels at power plants, two-thirds of the energy consumed to create electricity is lost.

The laws of thermodynamics dictate that conversion efficiency will never be 100 percent, because heat is lost at every step of the conversion process. But new technologies may be able to greatly increase conversion efficiency, moving from an…

The site, which began publishing regularly in January 2006, has 500,000 unique visitors a day, he said, and 80 million page views a month

At Google headquarters, a required stop on the geek-cult-hero speaking tour, he recently addressed hundreds of engineers, some of whom dutifully waited for him to sign their laptops. He said he had only wanted a tour of the place but had…