Headlines for the past year have reflected the steady decline of the American economy - huge drops in the stock market by multiple hundreds of points, the appearance of tent cities (like the one in Sacramento, California), failing banks, defunct mortgage companies, bankrupt businesses, and a cascade...
Last night, for several hours, I like many across America watched the season finale of NBC´s show, "The Biggest Loser - Couples". The transformations of the contestants and images of the hard work trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper put them through to produce those changes has been nothing sh...