24. “Detroit: Now a Ghost Town,”
25. Henry Payne, “Unions of Urban Decay,”
26. Steven Gray, “In Detroit, Nearly 50% Unemployment Rate?”
27. Ibid.
28. John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. is in Motown,”
29. Niall Ferguson, “Empire Falls,”
30. Centers for Disease Control, “Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006”; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/overweight/overweight_adult.htm.
31. John G. Spangler, “Childhood Obesity: Attacking a Crushing Epidemic,” ABCNews.com, May 13, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/childhood-obesity-white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity/story?id=10631915.
32. “Not grrrreat: After five decades, anti-obesity Bill could ban cartoon Tony the tiger from TV,”
33. Sharon Bernstein, “San Francisco bans Happy Meals,”
34. Public Health Agency of Canada, “Preconception Health and Folic Acid,” 2005; available online at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fa-af/backgrounder-eng.php.
35. Steven Reinberg, “Folic Acid Fortification Might Boost Cancer Risk,” ABCNews.com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/folic-acid-fortification-boost-cancer-risk/story?id=9109220.
36. Senator Richard Lugar, “Lugar praises passage of child nutrition bill,” press release, August 5, 2010; available online at http://lugar.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=327017&.
37. Madison Park, “Ex-military leaders: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’,” CNN, April 20, 2010; available online at http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.fat.fight/index.html.
38. Viktoria Lapko, “Family Becomes Extinct, To Be Replaced with Feminism and Gender Equality,” Pravda, August 19, 2010; available online at http://english.pravda.ru/history/19-08-2010/114665-family_feminism_gender_equality-0/.
39. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” August 31, 1837.
40. “Follow the Leader,”
41. Paul A. Rahe,
42. Kenneth Minogue, “The New Epicureans,”
43. “Millionaire gay fathers celebrate arrival of twins with triple christening ceremony,”