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...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston, Ann Blackman and Hannah Bloch/Washington and William Dowell/Southbury
...Margaret Carlson. With reporting by Ann Blackman and Tamala M. Edwards/Washington
...risk of dying prematurely from heart disease, developing diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer, depression and anxiety. "People will read this report more closely than other studies on health and exercise because it relates to their everyday lives. It deals with activities most people do," says TIME's Ann Blackman. "But the most alarming news is that so few Americans, especially children, exercise at all." The rept says 60 percent of American adults do not engage in the recommended amount of activity, and that 25 percent don't exercise at all. Just as bad, early half of American children ages...
...Reported by Ann Blackman with Elizabeth Dole and Erik Larson/New York
...NCES found that U.S. students' literacy skills rank second only to those of Finnish school children. Why the switch? Prior studies failed to account for the more demanding curriculum in U.S. schools. "The report shows how high standards are for American kids," says TIME's Ann Blackman. "Our teachers require the kids to jump through more hoops than they do in other countries." In a separate finding that black children and those whose parents failed to complete high school lag behind other U.S. students, the new study may point policy-makers toward a focus on the economic roots of scholastic...