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...study, Crosnoe used data collected on nearly 11,000 adolescents from 128 schools as part of the ongoing National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest and most comprehensive survey of health-related behavior among adolescents between 7th and 12th grade, which started in 1994. Crosnoe's study focused specifically on how obesity predicts maladjustment, and how maladjustment predicts college enrollment. For example, he found that self-rejection in obese girls was 63% higher than for non-obese girls. And in one group of obese girls, the rate of class failure was 24% higher than with their non-obese counterparts...
...counters that his government encourages critical thought. "Let's read, study, discuss, debate. Ideas, ideas and more ideas!" he said on Monday. Indeed, some within government ranks have been more than willing to denounce fellow Chavez allies in recent months. Pro-Chavez lawmaker Luis Tascon suggested there was corrupt behavior afoot at the state oil company and last week summoned company president and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez to shed light on the matter in front of the national Assembly. Also last week, outgoing Defense Minister Gen. Raul Isaias Baduel said, in his farewell speech, that Chavez's beloved "socialism...
...country is not as bad off as we seem to think. But it's equally true that we shouldn't sit down and shut up. As Americans, we are vested by the Constitution with the duty and right to speak out against wrong and possibly criminal behavior by our government. As long as we're Americans, we will raise our voices in discontent when we recognize tomfoolery and deceit. Larry Gibson, PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA...
These are the types of rebukes that come to mind when I am marching along and I and hear the perennial heckle about the candidate’s absence. And such bratty behavior pales in comparison when considering the more powerful argument against the primary: One of the smallest and most affluent states in the country (not to mention one of the most predominantly white) has the power to greatly influence the presidential candidate offered by each of the two major parties...
...games till somebody loses his head. As anybody who has even looked sideways at the Internet knows, anonymity has a disastrously disinhibiting effect on human behavior. Freed of any possibility that their words will be connected to their actual identities, anonymous Internet posters have charted historic new depths of verbal offensiveness. Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture, has called for posters to own up to their Internet alter egos, arguing that "if we are to save the Internet, we need to confront the curse of anonymity...