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Most alarming of all, the rates of obesity among children and teens have tripled in the past 25 years. Health-care providers say they are seeing something of an epidemic of potentially lethal Type 2 diabetes, once known as the adult-onset version of the disease, among children as young as 10 and 11. "Without some intervention, this is the first generation of young Americans, being born today, who are expected to have a shorter life span than their parents or grandparents," says Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, who wrote a book about his 110-lb. weight loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Fat | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...especially awkward. Only one female cadet grins self-consciously as her male partner cradles her against his chest with competent arms.A DUAL LIFE One thing conspicuously missing from these male-female interactions is flirtation. This is not a formal rule, says Captain Eric McKinney, one of the adult officers who runs the ROTC program. Cadets are allowed to date, as long as they do not date between ranks. But the women say that flirting just does not happen. All of the cadets call each other by their last names, on and off the training fields. The last names...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All That She Can Be | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...another kind of bliss, extolling the journeys we take and the wonderful people we meet along the way. Bottom Line: Despite its pretensions, “Duck Season” proves to be a sublime retrospective on youth. Besides, there’s nothing like three teenagers and an adult getting stoned while blasting Beethoven...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duck Season | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...Well, I would consider Kazan movies adult. And the movies up for Academy Awards this year, I would consider those adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...R.C.They?re adult in content. The idea of pioneering form is not so important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

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