WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- John McCain's smoking history and age indicate Sarah Palin would have as high as a 40 percent chance of becoming U.S. president, a university professor says.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Potty parity is still pending for female politicos at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, says a law professor pushing for porcelain proportionality.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The director of a U.S. anti-smoking organization says smokers and obese people should pay substantially more for health insurance than others.

NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) -- New York has joined other cities such as Chicago in addressing the lack of equality when it comes to restrooms for women.

OAK BROOK, Ill., June 17 (UPI) -- Plans by McDonald's Corp. to resume sales in the United States of its 42-ounce drinks this summer is drawing fire from healthy lifestyle advocates.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 (UPI) -- A Virginia man instrumental in getting tobacco ads dumped from TV is focusing on what he calls the addictive quality of fast food.

Now that the 21st century is here, forget 21 as the age of majority. A University of Chicago study indicates most Americans think it takes several more years to become an official grown-up.

WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Lawyers are beginning to target the restaurant industry to attempt to hold it accountable for the nation's drastic obesity epidemic, legal representatives said Thursday at a food policy meeting.

The troubled British Broadcasting Corp., struck by declining audience figures and accusations it is "dumbing down" to try to regain viewers, is under pressure to justify the license fee it charges the public or lose the $4.2 billion that pours into its co