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Excessive television watching from an early age—one of the factors that Gortmaker pointed to in the paper as a potential cause for all three conditions—can also lead to higher prevalence for ADHD and even for asthma, due to decreased exposure to fresh air...
...FIRST-EVER on-air review--of Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins as a creepy ventriloquist--Emmy- winning Joel Siegel, the longtime movie critic and entertainment editor for ABC's Good Morning America, argued with a surly puppet. The bit went well and reminded him over the next three decades that "every day is an on-air audition." Siegel guided viewers with his encyclopedic knowledge and wit, enthusiastically hailing the films he liked as "Great!" and injecting pans with New York City--style humor (of Players, he said some whitefish he had eaten "showed more emotion than Ali MacGraw does...
...True, the foiled bombs were rudimentary collections of gas canisters, gasoline and nails--no biological, chemical or radioactive elements, not even any C4 or TNT. But what matters is not the technological complexity of a device but how many people it can kill. The London car bombs were fuel-air explosive bombs--designed to produce a huge fireball by igniting aerated liquid gasoline. Had they worked, scores of people could have been severely burned. Similar explosives were used by the U.S. military to clear acres of jungle in Vietnam...
...Transportation. According to that data, 36 planes sat on the tarmac for more than five hours in 2006. "We have 7.2 million flights in the United States each year. This kind of a thing happens a fraction of a fraction of the time," David Castelveter, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents 90% of consumer carriers in the U.S, said...
...realize its data was inaccurate until after it "was brought to our attention following JetBlue," he says, referring to the JetBlue tarmac delays at JFK in February. After the BTS completes the review, it may change how the data of tarmac delays is recorded. In a curious turn, the Air Transport Association - which originally used the BTS data to defend the airline industry's handling of tarmac delays - now supports the Bureau's improvement of its data collection and even issued a press release the day before the BTS began its review. "When it gets out that the airlines knew...