Cover illustration by Dave Coverly
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Part of the reason people don’t walk or bike more is that they can’t, writes IU alumna Sally Hicks, senior writer at the Office of News and Communications at Duke University, in the January-February edition of Indiana Alumni Magazine. The cost of obesity-related illness in America has reached $75 billion a year, Duke writes, and the ways communities are planned and built have an impact on sprawl, both human and environmental. Read Hicks’ story online at this link:
http://alumni.indiana.edu/magazine/200501/fatcity.html
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