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Eventually, they may be able to force you to stop elevator companies. JAMES: Maybe. (SOUNDBITE
OF LAUGHTER) CONAN: Okay, good luck with that. JAMES: All right, thank you.
CONAN: And we wish you the best. Thanks very much for the phone call. But Jason
Clay, that's a tension that goes on around the world as cities continue to
develop and as farmers continue to practice their - in their old ways. CLAY:
Well, I think as resources become more scarce, elevator's going to be more
competition for them, and money and who can afford to pay is actually going to
be part of the issue. <br />
It will probably be the case that people in cities
will be able to afford to pay more for water than farmers do, and we're already
seeing now some of the water rights that exist in places like California for
growing agricultural crops being sold to cities, because farmers make more money
selling water than they do growing crops and selling it. CONAN: More money
selling water? That's... CLAY: And that's probably the shape of things to come
in many parts of the world, wescalator it's drier. <br />
CONAN: And it's interest,
Sandra Postel, reading some of your work, I came across a concept - it may not
be original to you - but that trade in crops, sending wheat or corn to a dry
place like Saudi Arabia, is essentially trade in water. POSTEL: That's right.
Grain is the currency by which we trade water around the world. It takes about
1,000 tons of water to make one ton of grain. So the reason a country like Egypt
imports more than half of its grain is not because it's short of land. It's
because it's short of water. So as it imports so much grain, it's actually
importing 1,000 times that tonnage in water. So we call it virtual water. So
you're trading - one of the ways we balance water budgets around the world is by
trading grain. <br />
So - and that's not been such a big issue so far. We've been
able to do that with the extra grain. The problem that we're beginning to see
and get worried about is that you have very large countries that used to be
self-sufficient in grain, notably China, with 1.3 billion people, India with 1.2
billion people, Pakistan with nearly 200 million people, now beginning to become
so water-short that they can't be food self-sufficient anymore. And as they
begin to look to the international grain market to buy more food, it's going to
force prices up. And they'll be able to afford it, but what worries a lot of us
is what that means for the people in South Asia and particularly sub-Saharan
Africa that are hungry even today. And so that tension is going to worsen. <br />

But her own wellness was far elevator
companies track. She drank the equivalent of six sodas a day, loved fast
food and didn't exercise much. So she decided to take advantage of one of the
hospital's new benefits – health coaching. are a new kind of health
professional, and it's their job to help people make those easy-to-say,
hard-to-do behavioral changes that promote good health — getting enough
exercise, eating a balanced diet, and managing stress. At first, the lifestyle
changes Orley made were very small. "<br />
We started out where my goal was to
take the stairs instead of the elevator once a day. Not even more than that but
just really manageable," she said. Soon Orley was drinking more water and less
soda. She began walking regularly and attending Pilates classes. She kicked her
fast food habit. She lost 50 pounds. Last year, 300 of Providence's 2,800
employees in Anchorage tried health coaching. Orley's coach, Kelly Heithold,
says her clients have finally made the decision to change. "<br />
When they
actually make that step and make an appointment with me, they're ready,"
Heithold said. "And they say, 'Help me. I know what I need to do, I just don't
know how to get there.'" Health coaches are still rare in the medical
profession. But they are becoming more popular as chronic and often preventable
diseases like consume more and more . Tammy Green heads up Providence's
extensive employee wellness program. She thinks coaches are an important piece
of the health care puzzle that's been missing. <br />
"Everybody wants to be
healthy," Green says. "We just have not been able to help them achieve those
goals with our traditional approach." In three years of health coaching,
Providence has seen a small but steady decrease in the number of obese employees
– from 36 percent in 2009 to 32 percent in 2011. Green says blood pressure and
cholesterol levels are lower, and fewer employees are smoking. "Something's
happening and you can pretty much assure yourself that if we hadn't been doing
anything, we certainly wouldn't be seeing those trends," Green says.

Pierson said about the recent security elevator company. "I take full responsibility.
What happened is unacceptable and it will never happen again." Update at 4:12
p.m. ET. 'The Noble Thing To Do': , Pierson said resigning was the "noble thing
to do," because it would "take pressure off the organization." "Congress has
lost confidence in my ability to run the agency," she told the news
organization. "The media has made it clear that this is what they expected." She
added: "I can be pretty stoic about it, but not really. It's painful to leave as
the agency is reeling from a significant security breach."<br />
An Idea: Silence
Your Cell Phone Or Pay The Price Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, master of the Queen's
music, made news recently in his call to impose fines on mobile phone users
whose gadgets ring during concerts. Host Scott Simon has more. (SOUNDBITE OF
APPLAUSE) SIMON: The concert hall. The light's dim; the audience grows quiet,
expectant and attentive. On the program: a lovely and lyrical piece by Scottish
composer Peter Maxwell Davies. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) PETER MAXWELL DAVIES:
(Instrumental) (SOUNDBITE OF CELL PHONE RING TONE) (SOUNDBITE OF AUDIENCE
SURPRISE) <br />
SIMON: Talk about spoiling the mood. So now, Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies, Royal Master of the Queen's Music, is urging cell phone companies to
fine concert-goers when their mobiles jangle during a concert, with all the
proceeds going to the Musicians Benevolent Fund. Sir Peter calls concert-goers
who forget to turn off their cell phones artistic terrorists. I've just had
enough, he told the Telegraph newspaper in London. Half the time they have some
ghastly, personalized ringtone, some rock music or banal tune. It just breaks
the concentration of performer and the audience and breaks the spell and bond
between them. Sir Peter has also recently spoken out against what he calls
moronic Muzak played in public places, including cafes and stores, and the Muzak
often played while telephone callers are on hold. It might be worth checking in
with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies next week, too, to see if he has any strong
feelings about people who hum sitcom theme songs in elevators. (SOUNDBITE OF
MUSIC)<br />
An Alaska Company Losing The Obesity Game Calls In Health Coaches
Shannon Orley, left, meets with her health coach, Kelly Heithold, right, at
Providence Alaska Medical Center. Every morning, Shannon Orley parks as far away
as possible from her office in Anchorage, Alaska. And on the sprawling that is
really far away. "Right around 1,000 steps each way. Definitely worth it," Orley
says. Two years ago, Orley was obese. And she faced a dilemma. She had just
taken a job helping coordinate Providence's employee wellness program.
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