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...scariest thing I've ever done," says Martin, who turned 51 last week and has a wife and 13-year old twin children. "Right now, I'm just worried about financially making this all work." (See 10 ways your job will change...
...developing world, in places like Tehran and Gujarat, India, where sheer population density and virtually nonexistent building codes can lead to death tolls in the tens of thousands during a strong quake. That was clear during the May 2008 earthquake in western China, when some 20,000 children and teachers were killed in the collapse of shoddily constructed schools. "What happened in China happens too often," says Yanev. "They think it can't happen here, until it does, and they're not prepared." Twenty years later, the lessons of 1989 are clear - we just have to heed them...
Should morbidly obese children be taken from their parents? That's the question an increasing number of countries are grappling with amid the Western world's obesity epidemic...
...latest case to make headlines concerns a Scottish couple who lost custody of two of their six children on the basis of what was, their lawyer claims, a failure to reduce the kids' weight following warnings from Scottish social services. The couple lost their Oct. 14 appeal in a case that is far from clear-cut - representatives of Dundee City say they would never remove children "just because of a weight issue." But obesity appears to be the primary reason South Carolina mom Jerri Gray lost custody of her 14-year-old, 555-lb. son in May. She was arrested...
...aware of, but because these cases are usually kept quiet [as a result of child-privacy laws], we have no record," says Dr. Matt Capehorn, who sits on the board of the U.K.'s National Obesity Forum. The issue of whether parents should lose custody of their obese children took center stage two years ago with a British television documentary about Connor McCreaddie, an 8-year-old who weighed more than 200 lbs. and was at risk of being taken from his mother by authorities. She eventually weaned him off processed foods and retained custody...