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Jason Yu, a rising seventh grader at Belmont Day School, said his “Move That Body” anatomy class had determined through surveys that Summerbridge students got enough exercise, but needed to cut fast food from their diets and add in several glasses of milk...
...Regrets Re "Performance of the Week" [June 14]: I was nauseated by the endless stream of apologies made to Smarty Jones and his camp after Birdstone won the Belmont Stakes, the real test of horse-racing greatness. Birdstone was the best horse that day. His breeding and an exquisite, masterful ride by jockey Edgar Prado took him across the finish line first. TIME gets a gold star for recognizing a true champion. Elaine Duett Coral Gables...
...Performance Of The Week" [June 14]: I was nauseated by the endless stream of apologies made to Smarty Jones and his camp after Birdstone won the Belmont Stakes, the real test of horse-racing greatness. Birdstone was the best horse that day. His breeding and an exquisite, masterful ride by jockey Edgar Prado took him across the finish line first. TIME gets a gold star for recognizing a true champion. ELAINE DUETT Coral Gables...
...Prozac, at least, has clear benefits. But it probably has risks as well. "It's really understandable that people are confused," says Carol Glod, director of developmental studies at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "We just haven't studied antidepressant drugs in kids enough to make many definitive statements." Part of the problem is that the brain chemistry of kids is different from adults'. Prozac works for both groups, but Paxil seems to work only for grownups. Kids, moreover, are amazingly responsive to placebos. While 70% of kids get better on Zoloft, for example, 60% improve on sugar pills...
Even the winning jockey, Edgar Prado, seemed disappointed. "I'm very sorry that happened," he said after his horse, BIRDSTONE, beat Smarty Jones in the Belmont Stakes by a length, "but I had to do my job." Thoroughbred racing fans should be accustomed by now to that sick feeling, with six horses in the past eight years having lost the Triple Crown in the final stretch, but Smarty Jones, the country's sweetheart, was supposed to be different. There was one group, however, that went home happy: the folks who bet on Birdstone, whose odds were...