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...ADULT AVOIDANCE Even though they strongly believe that they should be providing guidance to the teens in their life, most adults avoid talking about complicated issues, the Lutheran Brotherhood and Search Institute reports. While 75% of adults feel it is important to give financial guidance to young adults, only 36% actually do, the survey notes. Though 77% of adults believe it is their responsibility to teach teens respect for cultural differences, only 36% follow through...
WALKING We already knew that walking can reduce adult-onset diabetes and coronary heart disease. But researchers at Harvard University have found another good reason to take a hike: to prevent stroke. According to the Harvard Health Letter, even people who had been sedentary for much of their life had a lower stroke risk soon after they started walking regularly. Speed counts, though. For the fastest walkers, the risk reduction was an impressive 40%. A leisurely stroll does some good, but the study showed that a brisk pace of three m.p.h. or more is the key, even more important than...
...partnership with Fox Cable Networks, will exploit the group's brand and extensive, 35-year-old library of footage. It will also present new programs like the news show National Geographic Today, which will focus on nature, science and conservation, in hopes of providing a harder-core, more adult-focused alternative. Programming executive vice president Andrew Wilk points to the contrast between A.P.'s hosts and Geographic's star contributors, like Stephen Ambrose (who offers historical perspective on various programs) and primatologist Jane Goodall, as well as personalities like biologist Dr. Brady Barr, a correspondent for National Geographic Today...
...Number of sex shops operating in New York City in 2001, 2 1/2 years after a mayoral initiative to shut down one-third of all "adult" businesses within a year...
...payoffs have been even greater on the local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...