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...though, if Iraq cannot put enough of its own boots on the ground. After Bremer disbanded Saddam's 400,000-man army in May 2003, he drew up plans for a different kind of security apparatus--a slenderized 35,000-man military, a 40,000-strong Civil Defense Corps (CDC) and 90,000 police. Opting for quantity over quality, the CDC and especially the police took in droves of recruits who remain undertrained, ill equipped and unreliable...
Summer is prime time for Lyme disease, and this summer could be a bad one. The number of cases doubled from 2001 to 2002, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mostly as a result of continued human infiltration of Mother Nature's turf. Carried by a parasitic tick on mice, deer and household pets, the disease has spread to 43 of the 48 contiguous states--although 12 states in the Northeast and northern Midwest still account for 95% of reported cases. (Reported cases, however, may represent only a tenth of the total...
According the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), Salmonella bacteria usually resides within human and animal intestines and are transmitted by eating foods contaminated with feces or by the unwashed hands of infected food handlers. Contaminated foods look and smell normal, making identification difficult. The illness usually lasts only four to seven days, and most people recover without treatment, according to the CDC...
Nestle's experiences with the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the CDC, and the Department of Agriculture, which controls the food pyramid, have convinced her that responsibility for messages on nutrition should be moved someplace less subject to political pressure. She is not alone in thinking so. In May, Senators Ted Kennedy and Peter Fitzgerald proposed a bill that would transfer authority to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science. "This legislation would give us a new general in the war on obesity," says Illinois Republican Fitzgerald...
...serious effort to examine that connection got under way at a meeting convened in 1997 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To get people in different disciplines to start thinking about an obesity-sprawl connection, the CDC brought together city planners, architects, researchers, transportation engineers and even criminal-justice experts. (Why criminal-justice experts? Because safer streets are more walkable. There are a lot of pieces to this puzzle.) That meeting was a catalyst for the rise of the active-living movement, which got a major boost two years later when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...