By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
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Michelle Obama's three-day tour to Chicago, Mississippi and Missouri to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign will hit taxpayers' wallets at a sum of $50,000 or more.
Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates, saying its example should inspire the rest of the country.
Rachael Ray is multitasking.

First lady Michelle Obama is about to go on tour. She's taking her message of healthful eating and daily exercise — her signature Let's Move! campaign — on the road, with planned stops from Mississippi through Missouri to Illinois on Feb. 27 and 28.
The parent company of Reader's Digest has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than four years, saying it needs to cut its debt so it can keep restructuring.

American TV reality stars Kim and Kourtney Kardashian celebrated the U.K. launch of their clothing line — the Kardashian Kollection — with a VIP party in London.

Rachael Ray is donating $500,000 to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to help pets and families who are struggling to rebound from Superstorm Sandy.
Rachael Ray is donating $500,000 to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to help pets and families who are struggling to rebound from Superstorm Sandy.

Johnny Depp is bringing a dash of cool to the book world.

NBC's "The Apprentice" is bringing back 13 players fired from past "Apprentice" contests, plus one notable winner, in the first-ever "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice."
It's comeuppance time for Anthony Bourdain. And by his tally, he deserves his lickings.
It takes some serious talent to make carrots cool, but actor Reed Alexander of Nickelodeon's "iCarly" thinks he has the juice to pull it off.

Schoolchildren's favorite lunch — the ubiquitous frozen pizza — is about to get healthier.

Susan Marino started Angel's Gate Hospice for Animals more than a decade ago to care for animals with special needs: dogs paralyzed after being hit by cars; cats with severe deformities; a Labrador retriever born without lower limbs, now fitted with orthotics.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will salute military families in a Veterans Day fundraising special featuring stars including Jewel, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, the Associated Press reports.
"If these kids are eating like this every day," said Ray, "I'm coming to lunch here," added Mrs. Obama.
"It's like my Christmas," Ray said during a telephone interview Thursday from her home in upstate New York. "It's a marriage of my love for music and my love for food, in a city that I love."