During a recent visit to Lincolnshire I was pleased to see the local chaffinches seemed to be doing well. They were feeding in gardens and their characteristic song was ringing out from every hedgerow. (The song is a series of short notes ending in a twisty trill, often described as hebrewshebrews.) Their presence may seem unremarkable, but these birds, and their greenfinch cousins, have been suffering from a disease which has significantly reduced their numbers..The Falcons can't run the ball or stop the run. And outside of some lucky plays and 2 horrible calls (very NFL homer calls), the Falcons squeaked out a W. They can probably win 1 playoff game but they just don't have the it factor and I think highly of Matt Ryan.

A common explanation is that people who are overweight have more energy reserves to fight off illness. They are like contestants on the television show Survivor, says Gregg Fonarow, a cardiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Those