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...think a lot about obesity interventions, about prevention and focusing on eating healthy and exercising more," says Dr. Julie Lumeng, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan and an author of one of the current papers on children's behavior and weight. "But all of us, including doctors, are struggling because those interventions are not wildly successful...
...like the Battle of Stalingrad. Any sensible person would want both of them to lose.' ANDREW FERGUSON, editor at the Weekly Standard, on the series of debates between liberal comedian Bill Maher and conservative author Ann Coulter...
...significant relationship in such a large group of people,” said Frank B. Hu, professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH. The association found in this study can be of “substantial public health importance,” said Hu, who was a co-author of the paper. Monik C. Jimenez—a fifth year doctoral student at HSPH and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine who was the study’s principal researcher—said that she hopes the knowledge of this link will lead dentists to play a more active role...
...False Crutch I object to the implications made in the Essay "The People's Game" [March 16]. The author parrots propaganda in claiming that Pakistan "was born as ... a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India." Never in about 800 years since the first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...
...Richard M. Daley, clearly views winning the Games as a capstone of his nearly two-decade rule. "The Olympics is the No. 1 showcase on the world circuit of mega events," says John R. Gold, professor of social sciences and law at Britain's Oxford Brookes University, and co-author of Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012. He adds, "Even to be on the short-list is a major achievement - it puts you right up there with the world's major cities." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...