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...strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough new limits on the amount of ozone and fine particles (better known as soot) spewed out by trucks and power plants. These pollutants ravage the lungs and are implicated in asthma and cardiovascular disease. The high court rejected arguments by the trucking industry and its allies that Congress had delegated too much power to the EPA and that the agency must take the cost of compliance into account when setting air-quality standards. The EPA hopes to have the ozone rules...
Today it's a different story. Like most school nurses across the country, Jackson has seen her responsibilities grow dramatically in number and complexity. School nurses are managing care for more children with chronic conditions such as asthma and Type 2 diabetes. At the same time they are doling out more and more psychotropic drugs, such as Ritalin and Prozac, and performing involved medical procedures for students with severe disabilities--a population newly mainstreamed into the public schools by force of federal antidiscrimination laws. "We're not sitting in our offices waiting to clean off a skinned knee anymore," says...
...technology and facilities go," says superintendent Pat Cooper. "But if at the beginning of the day you start with an unhealthy child, there isn't a lot of learning that can go on." McComb health coordinator Norma Krapac and her staff sought to deal with a growing asthma problem in the district by teaching students about what triggers their attacks and placing nebulizers in every school. As a result, absenteeism among asthmatics has fallen. School disciplinary referrals have also dropped since a plan to put a nurse in every school was implemented. "When a child skips class or misbehaves, there...
...understands that the child would not be a copy of him. "We'd be genetically identical," says Barker. "But he wouldn't be raised by my parents?he'd be raised by me." Cloning, he hopes, might even let him improve on the original: "I have bad allergies and asthma. It would be nice to have a kid like you but with those improvements...
...understands that the child would not be a copy of him. "We'd be genetically identical," says Barker. "But he wouldn't be raised by my parents--he'd be raised by me." Cloning, he hopes, might even let him improve on the original: "I have bad allergies and asthma. It would be nice to have a kid like you but with those improvements...