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...Stevenson, a professor of psychology at England's University of Southampton, involved about 300 children in two age groups: 3-year-olds and 8- and 9-year-olds. Over three one-week periods, the children were randomly assigned to consume one of three fruit drinks daily: one contained the amount of dye and sodium benzoate typically found in a British child's diet, a second drink had a lower concentration of the additives, and a third was additive-free. All the children spent a week drinking each of the three mixtures, which looked and tasted alike. During each weeklong period...
Stevenson found that children in both age groups were significantly more hyperactive when drinking the stuff containing additives. Three-year-olds had a bigger response than the older kids to the lower dose of additives - roughly the same amount of food coloring as in two 2-oz. bags of candy. And, there were big individual differences in sensitivity. While the effects were not nearly so great as to cause full-blown ADHD, Stevenson nonetheless warns that "these adverse effects could affect the child's ability to benefit from the experience of school...
...marker of progress, essential for building Iraq's future--and so setting a date for U.S. withdrawal. Without it, oil companies are unlikely to plow in the billions of exploration dollars Iraq needs because they will not be certain of the financial terms. "There is an enormous amount of pressure to get this law passed," says Alex Munton, a research analyst for Wood Mackenzie, a global energy consultancy based in Edinburgh. "Big oil companies are looking firstly for legal security before they consider venturing into Iraq--even leaving aside the violence...
...disagreement amount to something that might scuttle the entire enterprise? Not likely. "We've all come to the conclusion that they [those in the North] are serious about disarmament in return for economic and diplomatic benefits," says a negotiator, "and nothing we've seen so far has made us back away from that assessment...
...have to be an elite athlete to suffer from it; there's no threshold of exercise intensity that causes the condition, so for some people, it might not take much panting. Temperature changes can also trigger exercise-induced asthma - working out in the cold brings a large amount of cold air into the lungs, which can cause airways to constrict in response. Fortunately, once it has been recognized, exercise-induced asthma is easily treated with short-acting bronchodilators such as albuterol - in the study, using albuterol inhalers helped athletes feel a whole lot better and work out longer...