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...football field--but those signals had to pass through a lot of masonry before they got to my laptop. Wi-fi operates on an unlicensed frequency, so it has to deal with interference from baby monitors and microwave ovens and cordless phones too. As a result, my Internet access would vanish and reappear like a will-o'-the-wisp, even when I engaged OS X's excitingly named "interference robustness" feature. I always seemed to lose connectivity just when I was about to send a crucial e-mail--it's embarrassing to run down a city street waving your laptop...
Even without this so-called thrifty gene, you'd face an uphill battle to stay trim. Like many Americans in rural areas, the poorer Oglala Sioux have far less access to fresh fruits and vegetables than those in more connected settlements. This means you're likely to be filling up on high-calorie, processed foods, especially since fatty foods are cheaper than healthy ones, and your family--like more than half the families on the reservation--is probably poor. What's more, the calories you consume stick around, since you're not doing much to burn them off. Your school...
...Ridge reservation is nearly 3,500 sq. mi. (9,000 sq km)--more than half the size of Connecticut--but there are just a handful of stores in the area that sell fresh produce. And with average income well below the poverty line, even Pine Ridge families who have access to the good stuff can't afford to buy it. "When you have families on a limited income, it gets difficult to make that decision to eat well," says Bonnie Holy Rock, an Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge. Holy Rock is the field-site coordinator for Bright Start, a University...
...part of its fight against childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeding local initiatives like the Healthy Schools Program, which will provide on-site support for more than 8,000 schools by 2010, improving access to healthy food and increasing opportunities for students to exercise. Last year 16 states supported policies to improve physical-education classes, which have been cut back severely in recent years, and just this month Florida governor Charlie Crist signed a bill requiring physical-education programs in the state's elementary schools. Denver has renovated more than 50 school playgrounds, significantly increasing children...
...photograph accompanying "A Brief History Of: The GI Bill" contained what appeared to be one black and 10 white individuals [June 9]. Ironically, this represents exactly the kind of disproportionate access to GI Bill advantages that were available to returning GIs. The sad truth is that while the government was willing to pay for college and housing loans, it was unwilling to change the laws that prevented most nonwhite GIs from taking advantage of this money. In fact, the GI Bill in 1947 "threw open the doors of élite academies" only to the white masses. The same was true...