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...Childhood obesity is epidemic in the United States," said Dr. William H. Dietz Jr. of New England Medical Center, a co-author of the study, which is being published in the May issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children. "The implications are that there is going to be a major rise in the prevalence of adult obesity and its consequences...
...others released every day. Were it not for the fame of his victim, they insist, he would probably have already been freed. But Hinckley's case, which comes up for review every six months, will inevitably remain problematic. "There is no precedent for dealing with assassins," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified at the 1982 Hinckley trial. "None have ever been released from custody alive...
...toys have provoked controversy even before hitting the shelves. Critics of children's TV, who believe that too many programs have become vehicles for selling toys, think the new electronic link will increase the manufacturers' influence on youngsters and encourage unhealthy levels of TV watching. Says Dr. William Dietz, chairman of the subcommittee on children and television for the American Academy of Pediatrics: "The TV will now play with the toy for the child. There is absolutely nothing left for the child's imagination." In their defense, toymakers contend that the new devices prompt children to dream up creative strategies...
...penny-pinching moves have come just in time; criticism of GM's bloated size has been reaching a peak. Says one prominent critic, Maryann Keller, who follows the auto industry for the investment firm of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "GM has done more to help itself in the last three months than it has in the last few years combined." But GM's Smith will have to cut costs even more dramatically if he hopes to quiet the company's sharp- tongued gadfly, H. Ross Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Perot, who joined the GM board...
Peep-show porn is not the only bad influence, according to some commissioners. Several panelists are equally troubled by the sexually sadistic aesthetic that has crept into general-market films, such as Dressed to Kill and the more recent 9 1/2 Weeks. Commission Member Park Dietz, who teaches at the University of Virginia Law School, believes that film and television scenes portraying women in violent situations are "every bit as harmful as anything in the adults-only establishments...