james byrd died in jasper, texas, in june 1998. four months after james byrd died, two young men named aaron mckinney and russell henderson went to the fireside lounge in downtown laramie, wyoming, and in that bar they picked up a 21-year-old college student named matthew. they drove him out of town in their pickup truck. they tied him to the fence in a middle of a field and tortured him to death. 18 hours after he was left there, he was found by a passing cyclist who initially thought he was a scare crow. he was a young man in a coma by then who would never regain consciousness and died in the hospital five days later. it was a gruesome discovery at this fence late wednesday afternoon as the sun was setting, two bicyclists approached and at first they said they looked like a scarecrow had been tied to the fence. the lifeless body of 21-year-old matthew shepard, a university of
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countrying ca i counting calories, we already know 36% of all americans are already obese and 12.5 million children are obese. those numbers have tripled since 1980. some numbers changed overnight back in 1998. that s when the government, not our diets, decided who is overweight by adopting the body mass index, bmi. in june 1998, 25 million americans went to sleep perfectly healthy and with the stroke of a pen, instantly became fat overnight. so while we re all paying attention as we should to the figures on the scale there, are some other numbers we should also be watching. because of the ten states with the highest obesity rates, six of them are also topping the list of states with the most poverty. which makes all the difference when it comes to food choice, because $380 is the maximum additional cost an average
palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergeant major shalit. matthew chance is at the border crossing in gaza. he joins us live with the latest. presumably a sense of anticipation there, matthew. reporter: certainly is, charles. in fact, hundreds of people have gathered here at the checkpoints, all family members of the hundreds of prisoners about to be released into the gaza strip, who have come to welcome people who, frankly, they didn t expect to see again in many cases. some of the people that have been released by israel today in ex