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...biggest problem, as it so often is, is money. The dry rot at the CDC labs in Atlanta--where leaky walls are repaired with duct tape and a sputtering power system caused a blackout during the height of anthrax testing last fall--is only the most conspicuous part of the problem. Funding throughout the agency is so meager that members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service--a sort of disease SWAT team--cannot afford even such basic field equipment as two-way pagers...
...high-sugar foods and out of the habit of exercising regularly. Kids are most vulnerable to ballooning weight in early childhood and then again in adolescence, says Dr. William Dietz, director of the division of nutrition and physical activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Children normally lose fat from ages one to six or seven. When they start putting on excess pounds as toddlers, they are at heightened risk for obesity in adulthood for reasons that are not well understood...
...running back Anthony Thomas, 23; and quarterback Jim Miller, 30. The soft-spoken Miller is a rookie of sorts, who got the starting job practically by default in his third year with the Bears. He has ridden the bench for so long--seven seasons with Chicago, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville and Atlanta--that his pants are pine scented. No one is mistaking these guys for Dick Butkus, Walter Payton and Jim McMahon, but they've still got game...
...merchandise or dispute a transaction before you have to pay for it. Not so with debit cards, though issuers are so eager for consumers to embrace them that they routinely "give the customer the benefit of the doubt on a bad transaction," says George Albright of Speer & Associates, an Atlanta-based consultancy...
...rest of us, this wouldn't be so different than what's already in place. The standardized databases would save the California state trooper a phone call to Atlanta; he'd be able to run a nationwide check from his car. And the smarter cards, "hardened" with biometric data, would make identity theft much trickier, at least in person. (Georgia, incidentally, already uses thumbprints on its drivers' licenses...