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ANDOVER, Mass. — For the past month and a half, I have taught at the summer session of Phillips Academy. Although working close to home in this sylvan corner of northern Massachusetts was a joy to me, I have to admit a certain amount of moral struggle that I faced as a faculty member of an institution whose students condescendingly referred to me as a “local” while I grew up in neighboring North Andover. Now, at the end of the summer, I have seen the other side of the campus?...
That may be precisely the problem. Today roughly 17% of American kids and teens are obese, and parents cite obesity as a top concern for their children's health. Yet with so many other overweight kids in the class, it appears that parents can't recognize - or admit it to themselves - when their child is too heavy. When they do realize it, like Becky Cohn, parents often are upset or don't know how to implement pediatricians' vague orders about exercise and diet - much the way overweight adults are flummoxed by the same recommendations. (Read "Making Good Health Easy...
...with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large numbers of the so-called worried well, who, when they showed up en masse, had the ability to delay services for the seriously ill. But U.S. officials admit that today's guidance could change as conditions develop...
...even Korach will admit that the one major issue with relying on parents to help pay for school essentials is that itexacerbates inequities that already exist between well-off school districtsand those with lesser means. "We're not naive," he says. "You couldn't do what we do in other communities...
...literally gasped. And such numbers are not unique to agriculture or to California. Just as we are now dependent on cheap credit and cheap manufactured goods from China, we really can't afford to say no to cheap laborers from Mexico and Central America, and we need to admit that truth and make the system for absorbing them rational. At the upper end of the scale, it's crazily self-defeating for us to set arbitrary and entirely politicized limits on the visas we grant to skilled foreign workers, such as software engineers and nurses. Wouldn't it make more...