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Gazette Volume 22, No. 4 • January 28, 2011 • A weekly publication for Library staff Mulhollan To Retire as Chief of CRS

By Cory Howell

Daniel P. Mulhollan, director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), announced his impending retirement in his annual address to staff on Jan. 19. Mulhollan will retire in April 2011, after 17 years as director and 42 years of federal service to Congress. In his address, Mulhollan traced developments in politics and legislation throughout his career that shaped his

views of CRS’s role, from the 91st Congress Alan Applebaum to the 112th. Artist Marilyn Church covered some of the most compelling trials of the past 36 years. “I strongly believe that the Congressio- nal Research Service – with its capacity to focus the country’s best thinking on From Courtroom to Library, identifying alternative solutions to the problem at hand and setting out their A Cast of Sketchy Characters potential consequences – is one of the hair at the time – that’s the way all his chief bulwarks for drafting well-thought- By Mark Hartsell victims looked. I was the right age. My out legislation that anticipates all impli- Under the circumstances, Marilyn fingers froze trying to keep drawing.” cations and finds legislative redress to Church managed to finish that day, those consequences identified,” Mulhol- Church found it difficult to work: Son of Sam sat two feet away, his blue eyes star- and she kept right on drawing for the lan said. next 30-plus years, covering many of the CRS works exclusively for Congress. ing directly and steadily into her own. Church, a courtroom artist, had never biggest trials of the age. Its mission is to serve members and com- Church illustrated a courthouse who’s mittees throughout the legislative process been this close to a defendant, much less a serial killer. David Berkowitz, aka “Son who of killers, terrorists, would-be assas- by providing comprehensive and reliable sins, celebrity villains, wayward entertain- legislative research and analyses that of Sam,” murdered six people and terror- ized the city of New York for 12 months ers, mob bosses, upper-crust criminals are timely, objective, authoritative and and high-profile plaintiffs: John Hinckley, confidential, thereby contributing to an beginning in the summer of 1976. Now Berkowitz sat for a sanity hearing Mark David Chapman, John Gotti, Woody informed national legislature. Allen, Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley, “Congress understands that we are in a makeshift courtroom in a hospital – bedsheets draped the table where judge, Jackie Kennedy, Donald Trump and the their shared staff, complementing their “Preppy Killer,” Robert Chambers, among personal and committee staff, provid- defendant and artist sat. But it wasn’t just the surroundings or the nearness or many others. ing cost-effective expertise whenever The cases, faces and places captured and wherever needed,” Mulhollan said. weirdness of Berkowitz that so unsettled Church. in Church’s work for newspapers and net- “I am proud to have been able to serve works now have a new home: The Library the United States Congress and support “I realized that I very much resembled his victims,” she says. “I had long, dark Mulhollan, continued on page 6 church, continued on page 4 2 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette January 28, 2010

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MATTHEW RAYMOND Salzburg Hyperion Ensemble Executive Editor 8 p.m., Dec. 20, Mark Hartsell Editor Coolidge Auditorium Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; sitional styles showcased in new music, Lisa Davis, Donated Leave jazz and cross-genre projects. Proofreaders: Jennifer Gavin, George Thuronyi In May, a mini-festival centers on Design and Production: Ashley Jones, Morgan Greene world premiere performances of Library peter braestrup Gail FinebErg James W. Mcclung Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher of Congress commissions by Sebastian (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) The Library of Congress opens the Currier and Stephen Hartke. Artists

spring portion of its 85th anniversary appearing at the mini-festival include An official publication of the Library of Congress, The Gazette concert season with a performance encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and the NOW Ensemble, Victoire, the Word- photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to by the Salzburg Hyperion Ensemble less Music Orchestra with guitarist-com- convey the most necessary information. of sextets from Schoenberg, Strauss poser Tyondai Braxton, violinist Colin Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital and Brahms. Jacobsen and pianist Bruce Levingston, form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached The Hyperion Ensemble, founded in and eighth blackbird. Microsoft Word file. Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public 1996, presents audiences with unortho- Also on the calendar is a trio of Affairs Office, LM 105. dox programs that feature well-known concerts by major jazz figures Martial Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current works performed alongside seldom- Solal, Brad Mehldau, Eddie Daniels and issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. heard chamber pieces in an attempt Roger Kellaway.

to change the way listeners perceive And the Library will join with the Library of Congress the music. U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” for Washington, DC 20540-1620 Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] The program at the Coolidge concerts featuring the music of Aaron Design and production: Ashley Jones, includes the original sextet version of Copland (April 9); Ellington, Mingus 7-9193, [email protected] Arnold Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht,” and Mulligan (May 5); and roots of the ISSN 1049-8184 Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the Richard Strauss’s sextet from the opera American songbook (May 21). Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services “Capriccio” and the Sextet No. 2 in G The Library’s concert series is pre- Major by Johannes Brahms. sented free of charge to the public but Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff The rest of the Library’s spring requires tickets for admission. Tickets Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspa- season features a rich mix of compo- are distributed by TicketMaster. per editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether or how much to publish, we consider content (including misstatements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal attacks, and redundancy) and length (the limit is 600 words). Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work and “A True North Britain: Hidden Messages and Meaning in telephone extension should be included so we can verify author- ship. Letter writers should understand that when they sign their John Shearer’s Furniture” letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing privacy. If a letter calls for management response, for example, Author Elizabeth A. Davison will discuss and sign copies of her work “A True an explanation of a policy or actions or clarification of fact, we will ask for management response.—Ed. North Britain: Hidden Messages and Meaning in John Shearer’s Furniture” at 1 p.m. on Feb. 1 in the West Dining Room of the Madison Building. Gazette Deadlines Shearer was a Virginia and Maryland furniture maker between 1790 and 1820 The deadline for editorial copy for the Feb. 11 whose work often contained messages celebrating Britain’s naval victories Gazette is Wednesday, Feb. 2. and proclaiming his loyalty to the crown. E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor to [email protected]. To promote events through the Library’s Twenty such pieces currently are on exhibit at the Daughters of the American online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) Revolution Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and contact information to [email protected] by 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. Boxed announcements should be submitted electronically (text files) by 9 a.m. Monday Read the Gazette in color at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette the week of publication to [email protected]. January 28, 2010 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 3

news After Week, Hawk Out of Library Coop, Into Rehab

By Mark Hartsell far away from the Jefferson Building. The unreality of the situation hit the The hawk that took up unauthorized rescuers later. residence in the Main Reading Room of “I’m thinking: This is almost hilari- the Library of Congress, eluding captors ous,” Koppie said. “You’ve got this raptor and delighting a nationwide audience for flying around in circles like he’s part of a week, finally got evicted. this mural on the ceiling that’s blue sky, The female Cooper’s hawk was appre- and you’ve got people doing research hended by a rescue team Wednesday below you.” morning and sent to a stint in rehab with The rescue ended a week in which the Raptor Conservancy of Virginia, ending the situation captivated bird and Library a week in which she was the subject of a lovers around the world. segment on CNN, the object of hundreds Posts on the Library’s blog and Face- of comments online and the cause of book page revealing the hawk’s predica- a lot of craned necks in the Jefferson ment drew hundreds of comments – and Building. prompted an outpouring of appreciation, The hawk first was noticed by a read- Abby Brack information, questions, puns and advice ing room patron on Jan. 19. She’s thought Linda Moore of the Raptor Conservancy of – plus one self-copyrighted poem, “A Bird to have entered the building while in Virginia with the rescued hawk. Flew into the Library.” pursuit of another bird, but no one knows use as bait – “the choice items on the Readers immediately identified the for sure how she got in. menu,” Koppie said. bird as a female Cooper’s hawk, then set The Library enlisted the aid of the About 8:10 a.m., the three-person team about choosing names – Gary Cooper, Raptor Conservancy of Virginia to rescue put the starlings – Frick and Frack – in Alice Cooper, Fenimore Cooper, Ad Hawk, the hawk, and the Washington Humane a trap on a ledge inside the dome and Hudson Hawk, Kitty Hawk, Nathaniel Society consulted on her welfare. waited, watching from behind a perfo- Hawkthorne, Sadie Hawkins. Early attempts to capture the bird rated, camouflaged covering. Advice, they say, is free, and readers were unsuccessful: On Sunday, the hawk The starlings saw the nearby hawk and gave generously, from the technical (use a snatched some frozen quail used as bait froze. Eventually, they moved, drawing bal chatri trap with a mouse or pigeon for and managed to evade the traps. the hawk’s attention. bait) to the frustrated (“open the window “I think that bought us a few extra The hawk flew onto the trap to reach dag nab it”) to the off topic (“hot coco days,” said Kennon Smith, a federally the starlings, and its talons became entan- and hot tea will keep your hands and licensed bird bander who was part of the gled in the monofilament snares attached finger warm.”) team that ultimately captured the hawk. to the top of the wire cage. The clamor online also drew a load of As days passed, Capitol police checked The team grabbed the hawk, weighed media attention: CNN ran a segment on up on the bird and helped rescuers navi- it and placed it in a covered cardboard Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room.” The gate the dome. The second and third shifts carrying box. The capture occurred about local ABC and NBC-TV stations ran stories, of the Architect of the Capitol also helped 8:35 a.m., Koppie said. as did The Washington Post, WTOP, NPR’s perform observation after hours. The bird was in good health overall “All Things Considered,” TBD.com, Audu- Meanwhile, the Library contacted and had no significant feather damage. bon Magazine, Reuters, the Huffington Craig Koppie, a raptor biologist with the She was somewhat dehydrated and Post, Canada’s National Post and Time, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And Smith, weighed only 424 grams – some 80 to 220 among others. a friend of Koppie who has worked with less than a bird its age and size normally The rescuers walked away with the raptors for 30 years, had been following would weigh. satisfaction of safely rescuing the hawk the saga on the news. “It was emaciated to the feel,” Smith and with a great story to tell. Koppie Koppie and Smith talked and figured said. got an added bonus: His first trip to the they could help – the beginning of the end Moore removed the hawk from the Library. of the hawk’s residency at the Library. Library and took it for several days of “It’s the most impressive structure I’ve Koppie and Smith met with Linda rehabiliation during which it would be ever seen,” he said. “I mean, unbelieve- Moore of the conservancy at the Library given fluid and its weight monitored. able. I’ll never forget this – probably in first early Wednesday. Koppie and Smith Afterward, the hawk will be released place for me as the most unique area I’ve brought with them a pair of starlings to into the wild – somewhere, Moore said, far, ever trapped a bird.” u 4 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette January 28, 2010

Collections church, continued from page 1 an aficionado of high-profile trials. framing scenes. An eye for the details of Congress in December acquired the “I didn’t even know that artists drew that would sustain interest over a long majority of her collection, some 4,000 in the courtroom,” she says. camera shot. sketches. In 1974, a friend suggested that she And she learned to be prepared for Because cameras typically aren’t give courtroom illustration a try. So anything. allowed in court, the work of Church and Church attended the misconduct trial “A witness could suddenly stand up others like her provides a carefully and of a Queens district attorney for a week, and point out somebody or break down colorfully rendered view of historic trials sitting behind the other artists and sketch- and cry,” she says. that otherwise wouldn’t exist at all. ing scenes. Or, as once happened, a defendant The illustrations don’t just open a She loved it. could suddenly punch out his lawyer window on the world of celebrity justice “That’s when I said, ‘I can do this. This and put him on the ground. – in one scene, Marla Maples takes the is great,’ ” Church says. “Whatever happens in a courtroom, witness stand surrounded by boxes of She shopped her week’s worth of work you must be prepared,” she says. “There’s shoes. The renderings also show how to all the TV stations and newspapers never any excuse for not capturing some- courtrooms evolved over time with, for in New York City. WABC-TV hired her, thing important that’s happened.” example, the addition of more women and she eventually worked for the New Her work at times led her into unex- and African-Americans as judges and York Times, ABC and CNN, among other pected places. lawyers. media outlets. Church covered the trial of Jean “These do more than capture individu- Church’s long-term prospects didn’t Harris, who in 1980 was charged with als,” says Sara Duke, a curator in the Prints seem bright. “It’s too bad you’re start- and later convicted of the murder of her and Photographs Division. “For scholars ing so late, because cameras are about ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, the author who want to look at how attitudes shifted to replace us all,” her new colleagues of “The Complete Scarsdale Medical over time in the courtroom, here’s a good would say. Diet.” place to start.” But Church found the work compel- When Hollywood produced a TV Church never imagined she would ling: “The best dramas in town,” she says. movie about the trial, Church played the make a career in the courtroom. She “The best legal minds arguing, sparring. courtroom artist onscreen, served as a studied painting and illustration at the The defendant’s life on the line in many visual consultant and drew the “bumper Pratt Institute, a private art college in cases. It’s drawing from life. It’s making drawings” that carried the broadcast into Brooklyn, and later worked as a fashion art.” and out of commercials. illustrator. She quickly learned the key skills of “I went through the trial once draw- She’d never set foot in court. She had the trade: Lightning speed. Accuracy. A ing it and went through it again in Hol- no background in legal matters and wasn’t feel for crucial moments. A knack for lywood over and over in those scenes,” she says. The night former Beatle John Lennon was murdered, WABC called on Church to produce an “artist’s conception” of the events, an imagined re-creation of scenes. The station’s coverage – including Church’s work – won an Emmy. But the Lennon drawings are not part of the Library of Congress collection. Church had to constantly fight to keep her drawings from getting lost by the news crews, and the Lennon illustrations were no exception. She never saw them again after that night. “I can’t tell you how casually TV stations treated these drawings,” she says. Witnessing court proceedings wasn’t always easy – even if they didn’t involve a Son of Sam or Preppy Killer. Marilyn Church The custody battle between Woody Don King Allen and Mia Farrow – and the charges January 28, 2010 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 5

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gress, but Church was skeptical. “I had that in my mind: If the New York museums couldn’t take it,” she thought, “why would the Library of Congress with its much more national orientation?” But she kept it in the back of her mind. Eventually, she placed a call to the Library that Duke was happy to receive. The Library holds some work by courtroom artists – scenes, for example, from the trials of the Chicago Seven and Sirhan Sirhan – but the addition of Church’s drawings easily represents the Library’s largest collection of such work. “This is our only entrance into the realm of the courtroom,” Duke says. “With the exception of O.J. and Judge Wapner, court is not televised. So this is our ticket into those moments in time.” Church, meanwhile, still is hard at Marilyn Church Son of Sam work. She recently published a book, “The of inappropriate behavior by Allen with she had misrepresented the mob boss’s Art of Justice,” featuring her courtroom Farrow’s adopted daughter – troubled hairline. scenes. Last week, she was covering Church on a personal level. Another day, Church looked up to see the court appearance of Viktor Bout, an “He was an icon for me,” she says. Gotti himself gesturing to her. international arms dealer. “He was such a brilliant writer and movi- Surprised, she looked back over her And she paints for her own pleasure emaker. Sitting every day in court for shoulder, saw no one and turned again – but in an abstract style that’s quite the about three weeks listening to these ter- to Gotti. opposite of the detailed, literal renderings rible charges against him …” Who, me? she produces for her day job. By the end of the trial, she says, Allen He nodded, then pointed to his neck There is, she concedes, a connec- just sat there, a beaten man. and waggled his finger in warning. tion. “I realized that you really have to stay “He had been following the draw- “In my paintings no one is identifiable, removed from what you’re hearing,” she ings,” Church says. “He was saying, ‘Don’t faces are seldom detailed because I find says. “You cannot let your emotions run draw my neck fat anymore. I’m watching the mysterious and the unknowable most away with you.” you.’ ” fascinating,” she says. “I love the idea that Just as the artist observes the court, About 20 years ago, Church began nobody is telling me what needs to be in the court at times closely observes the to consider what she would do with the a picture and the freedom to do that is artist. collection she was steadily amassing. what’s intriguing to me.” Mob boss John Gotti closely followed She inquired at the Brooklyn Histori- And she is glad that her courtroom the press coverage of his trial – he knew cal Museum and the New York Historical art has found a permanent home at the the artists and reporters and the media Society. The answer was discouraging: Library, where it can be useful to scholars outlets they represented. The institutions just didn’t have the facili- for years to come. Gotti’s brother once approached ties to house her collection. “I am so thrilled that it is there,” Church in court and complained that A friend suggested the Library of Con- Church says. “Really thrilled.” u

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Mulhollan, continued from page 1 the Legislative Reference Service, which became the functioning of representative govern- CRS the next year in the ment.” Legislative Reorganiza- At the conclusion of the director’s tion Act of 1970. remarks, the hundreds of staff gathered From 1973 to 1981, he in the Coolidge Auditorium rose in a served as head of three standing ovation. sections in CRS’s govern- Librarian James H. Billington ment division, working appointed Mulhollan director of CRS on closely with congressio- Jan. 24, 1994. Mulhollan has been respon- nal committees on issues sible for policy, planning and operations, such as lobbying disclo- overseeing a $100 million budget and sure, the Watergate inves- approximately 675 professional staff, tigation, the impeachment including experts in business and the investigation, congressio- economy, environment and science, gov- nal reform and standards ernance, international relations, defense, of official conduct. law and social welfare. Mulhollan became “Dan Mulhollan has been a remark- assistant chief of the gov- able and effective leader of the Con- ernment division in 1981 gressional Research Service,” Billington and was named chief in said. “He has led this unique service by 1991. In these positions, expanding the capacity of CRS to provide he managed research for interdisciplinary scholarship, which has all the division’s policy led to even more insightful analysis of the issues: Congress, includ- problems addressed by Congress.” ing its organization and As director, Mulhollan has led research processes; executive to support congressional deliberations on branch organization and major issues since the 103rd Congress. operations; the federal Under his leadership, CRS developed a budget process; inter- Mulhollan CRS website exclusively for Congress, governmental relations, offering analytic and information prod- survey research and public opinion polls; multiyear affirmative action plan. In 1993, ucts and services in an interactive envi- civil rights and minorities; elections, lob- the Library began sharing both its major ronment. bying, political parties and processes, the exhibits and its databases free on the Mulhollan led a successful workforce territories, and U.S. history. Internet. Since 1992 he has served on the succession effort, anticipating that CRS In 1991, Mulhollan received the Dis- Library’s executive committee. would lose as much as 50 percent of its tinguished Service Award, the Library’s Mulhollan received a GE Electric staff as those who were hired during CRS’s highest honor. The award recognizes College Bowl Scholarship in 1962 and expansion in the 1970s would become eli- career achievements, unusual levels of graduated with honors and a B.A. from gible for retirement around the same time. service and achievement of extraordinary the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Mulhollan’s succession efforts ensured results. Minn., in 1966. As a recipient of a National continuity of service to Congress through In 1992, Billington appointed Mulhol- Defense Education Act Title IV fellowship, this transition. lan as acting deputy Librarian of Con- he worked toward a Ph.D. in political Other accomplishments include over- gress. During a two-year appointment, philosophy at Georgetown University seeing the development of a collaborative Mulhollan led an effort to improve the from 1966 to 1969. research environment in CRS, employing Library’s service to Congress. He was He is a member of the American Politi- new tools to assess agency performance, responsible for establishing a Library- cal Science Association, the American aligning CRS’s workforce to the needs of wide team to examine and enhance the Library Association and the Special Congress, and creating a program that Library’s understanding of and respon- Library Association. He serves on the Visi- established partnerships with major uni- siveness to congressional needs, and con- tors Board of the School of Information versities to enhance the agency’s research gressional understanding of the Library’s Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh capacity at minimum cost. mission and potential. and the Advisory Council for the San Jose Mulhollan joined the Library of Con- With his support, the Library estab- State School of Library and Information gress in September 1969 as an analyst lished in 1992 an Affirmative Action and Science. u in American national government in Special Programs Office, with its first January 28, 2010 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 7

News The High Cost of Obesity: A Weighty Issue

By Audrey Fischer to Washington to share in the discussion war. “It’s the invasion of Normandy,” she about obesity and serve as an advocate said. “Food, glorious food” was on the for our members,” he said. Miller-Kovach said “we can leverage minds of many who gathered in the Ellen Granberg, associate professor of these differences” to help both genders Mumford Room last Wednesday for a sociology at Clemson University, said the manage weight. program on “Weight Loss Through the subject of weight control is not new. Nor, Ann Albright of the Centers for Dis- Ages.” Along with a catered low-calorie she joked, did it start in the 1960s with the ease Control (CDC) discussed the dia- buffet, the program served up hard facts appearance of the model Twiggy. betes epidemic. about the high cost of obesity. Granberg said that, until about 1900, “Type 2 diabetes is the leading driver In cooperation with Weight Watchers girth was associated with wealth and of health-care costs,” she said. According International, the Library’s Science, Tech- prosperity. The change in body-size to Albright, 24 million people have the nology and Business Division assembled norms came with advances in nutrition disease and 57 million are pre-diabetic. a panel of experts to discuss dieting prac- science, an increase of chronic diseases If trends continue, one in three will have tices and perceptions spanning more and the advent of labor-saving devices diabetes by the year 2050. than 150 years that might help address that required less physical energy. The To improve those statistics, Congress the 21st-century obesity epidemic. 1950s brought weight-loss diets and diet passed the Patient Protection and Afford- The program was accompanied by books, and the 1960s brought support able Care Act, which mandates a National a display of more than Diabetes Prevention Pro- 100 books on dieting gram managed by the CDC. and nutrition from the To date, the program has Library’s collections, been implemented in 28 which will remain on locations nationwide with view in the Science and another 10 scheduled for Business Reading Room 2011. through February. Patrick O’Neil, professor R e p . R o n K i n d of psychiatry and behav- (D-Wis.) began the pro- ioral science at the Medical gram with a synopsis of University of South Caro- the role public policy lina, had the difficult task can play in reducing of predicting the future of health-care costs asso- weight loss and prevention. ciated with obesity. As “My crystal ball is broken,” a member of the Ways Abby Brack he quipped. and Means Committee Rep. Ron Kind stressed the importance of early intervention. He did, however, discuss serving on the Subcommittee on Health, groups such as Weight Watchers and ongoing obesity research. One study Kind is passionate about health-care Overeaters Anonymous. suggests a virus might cause the propen- reform. “There has been a good deal of scien- sity for weight gain, while another notes “Early intervention is the best use tific progress since the 1890s,” she said, bacteria that might help others maintain of limited dollars,” Kind said. “About 80 but there still is more to learn. a healthy weight. percent of these dollars now go to 20 Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific Improvements continue to be made percent of the population, mostly to treat officer for Weight Watchers International, in bariatric surgery, and new technolo- conditions resulting from obesity.” amused the audience with her compari- gies like iPhone apps assist with weight- One of three dollars is spent on test- son of weight-loss attitudes of men and loss programs. O’Neil also sees a trend ing for these conditions, said Kind, who women. toward weight management involving cited programs aimed at prevention and The author of “She Loses, He Loses: the primary care physician and individu- early intervention. The Truth about Men and Women and ally tailored approaches. And he would David Kirchhoff, president and CEO Weight Loss” has done her research. like to see neighborhoods designed to of Weight Watchers International and “Women approach weight loss like incorporate physical activity. moderator of the program, underscored the Hundred Years’ War,” she observed. “It’s a matter of the social desirabil- Kind’s belief that “prevention is a must “They advance, retreat and negotiate ity of physical activity versus the social for health-care reform.” with themselves.” Men, she noted, often undesirability of being seen with a Big “Weight Watchers has started to come wait until they are obese, then declare Gulp,” he said. u 8 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette January 28, 2010

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