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WHAT WAS YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAM? That I would wake up black. I was teased because of my [light] complexion. Of course, that was an impossible dream...
...Middle East and the Western Pacific Islands, some of the most rapid increases are found in developing countries. The cause is the same everywhere: increased consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food high in saturated fats and sugar, combined with a decrease in physical exercise. The rise in childhood obesity is especially troubling. The WHO estimated that 22 million children are overweight worldwide, including places like Thailand, where rates of obesity in children ages 5 to 12 rose from 12.2% to 15.6% in the space of two years. Meanwhile, a large U.S. study of the long-term risks of developing...
...strong tradition in a kind of wrestling similar to sumo, but a growing number are from Eastern Europe. Nine wrestlers are from Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, the Czech Republic,Kazakhstan and Russia. (A handful of Americans, like the first non-Japanese yokozuna, Akebonoknown as Chad Rowan to childhood friends in Hawaiirose to the highest ranks of sumo in the early 1990s...
Before they knew the full extent of all they had lost to Katrina--their home, their family silver, their wedding and baby pictures--childhood sweethearts Carmelita, 43, and Nathaniel Williams, 49, their daughter Jennifer, 9, and Nathaniel's daughter from a previous relationship, Natrena Lewis, 24, briefly feared they had lost the most precious thing of all: one of their own. Five days after New Orleans' levees collapsed, flooding the city, Natrena, a home health aide who had stayed behind to help a patient get into a shelter, was stranded on the rooftop of a motel along with...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, to YOSHIKI KURODA, 40, a city planner and childhood friend; in Tokyo. Sayako loses her royal status by marrying a commoner and will move out of the Imperial Palace to a rented one-bedroom apartment. The former Princess has quit her job as an ornithological researcher to practice her cooking and learn to drive before becoming a housewife. She will pay taxes and no longer receive a royal stipend, although she will be given a lump sum of $1.3 million to start her new life...