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Health News // 1 decade ago

Study: It takes a village to fight obesity

By 2030, U.S. obesity rates will increase 42 percent and the severely obese -- 80 pounds or more -- will rise from 5 percent to 11 percent, officials say.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Latino farmers to argue discrim case

Latino farmers had planned to press a discrimination case in Washington Tuesday, arguing they were denied Agriculture Department loans based on their heritage.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Canada passes anti-piracy bill

Hi, Jordy. Need to spell out MPCAA in first reference. tx, chuck

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Smoking in films affects movie ratings

How a movie portrays smoking of any kind will determine its rating, the Motion Picture Association of America announced Thursday from its Los Angeles office.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

MPAA wants to rehabilitate NC-17 rating

The chairman of the Motion Pictures Association of America, Dan Glickman, wants to make the NC-17 rating respectable.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Revisit NC-17 rating, MPAA chief asks

MPAA chairman Dan Glickman asked independent movie executives at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to embrace the NC-17 movie rating for edgier fare. The Motion Picture Association of America chief told the group that the Classification & Ratings Adminis

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

ShoWest told to aggressively market films

Hollywood is looking for a catchy slogan not unlike "Got Milk?," "Pork: The Other White Meat" and "Beef: It's What's for Dinner."

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Operation Big Broom to sweep Asian pirates

Motion Picture Association of America Chief Dan Glickman has announced "Operation Big Broom," an aggressive Asian-Pacific anti-piracy campaign.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

MPAA challenges China to end film piracy

Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman Tuesday challenged China to reduce film piracy and illegal DVD sales before the 2008 Olympics.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Problems with China piracy discussed

China's restrictions on foreign films helps piracy thrive, Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman told a Senate hearing Monday.

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Good people lost their farmland not because of bad weather, bad crops, but because the color of their skin
Latino farmers to argue discrim case Oct 13, 2009

Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

He also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the board of Friends of the World Food Program . Glickman is a Jewish-Freemason.

Glickman was born in Wichita, Kansas. The Glickman family operated Glickman Inc., a full-service scrap metal operation, since 1915 and Kansas Metal, an automobile and appliance shredder, since 1994. Glickman Inc. was founded by Jacob Glickman and later continued and expanded by Milton and Bill Glickman. With the death of Milton Glickman, Dan's father, in December 1999, Dan and his siblings Norman and Sharon Glickman carried on the family business until it was sold in 2002.

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