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Even adjusted for socioeconomic status, almost every known risk factor for childhood obesity occurs at higher rates among racial and ethnic minorities, lead author Medical School professor Elsie M. Taveras said...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Start Early | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...marriage licenses had been processed (of which almost all were for same-sex couples). "It's like a weight has been lifted off everyone," Michaud said. "You look at people's faces, and there's genuine happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurrying to the Altar on D.C.'s First Day of Gay Marriage | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...year ago, when the health care reform death march began. It did nothing to advance the negotiations, or to discomfort the Republicans. It followed a very similar statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging anecdotes, but not much else ... except, perhaps, another demonstration of the smug Democratic incompetence that got us to this point. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats on Health Care: Their Own Worst Enemy | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...news cycle that once defined the day at the White House has given way to a more ferocious beast. Call it the news cyclone, a massive force without beginning or end that churns constantly and seems almost impervious to management. In response, Obama's advisers have had to remake the rules of presidential p.r. "We have a theory of how the news media work in this Internet age," explains Dan Pfeiffer, the buzz-cut 34-year-old who recently became the third person to serve as Obama's communications director. "There is basically a constant swirl going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Scrambles to Tame the News Cyclone | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...Governor of La Paz in the upcoming elections was caught swerving down the city's streets at 3 a.m. The President showed no mercy. The candidate was not only forced to resign, but also was punished under the "community justice" regimen of his indigenous Aymara home village: the almost-Governor had to make 1,000 adobe bricks as penance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Drunkards' Strike' Shuts Down Bolivia | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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