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...many other schools are being forced to establish what educators are calling "peanut-free zones" - areas in the cafeteria and throughout the school where nut products are banned; some schools are going nut-free altogether. In some districts, like Ladue in St. Louis, Mo. - which includes about half a dozen peanut-free schools - teachers must learn how to administer an adrenaline shot known as an EpiPen. The injection counteracts anaphylactic shock, a potentially deadly allergic reaction that results in closed airways and can be triggered by mere contact with a nut-based product...
...study. The National Hospital Discharge Survey, which began tallying newborn circumcisions in 1979, shows a downward trend, from 65% that year to 57% in 2005. Much of the decline is attributed to immigration from Latin America and Asia, where the procedure is rare. Additionally, in more than a dozen states, Medicaid no longer covers the surgery routinely, leaving many poor children without the option. But intactivism is also gaining traction among educated, middle-class whites. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox observes, "It's these new parents that are unwilling to let kids suffer...
Your new Wal-Mart is being baked on the premises. The company is testing a dozen new store prototypes that have lower sight lines, woodlike fixtures and a more department-store feel in some sections. Let's not get carried away: it's still a big-box store, but that box isn't quite so stuffed anymore. The stores will use tons of recycled material and be vastly more energy-efficient. Wal-Mart has pledged to reduce energy usage at its stores 30% by 2012. It has embraced compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) and less packaging. For instance, by next...
...activity,” with readers communicating about the material through annotations and notes. That is not to say he predicts the fall of books altogether; rather, he believes that they will become less important in time. “We’ve seen already, in just a dozen years on the web, that our thought takes other forms,” Weinberger says. Take blogs or encyclopedia articles filled with cross-indexed links for examples. Not knowing what tomorrow’s technology will hold, however, even Weinberger must concede that traditional media hold a privileged place among...
Dave Filipi, a 58-year-old family doctor, made his way to the back room of McKenna's Blues Bar near the University of Nebraska's Omaha campus. Nervously smoothing his suit, he lingered in the doorway. "To be honest, I'm a Republican," Filipi sheepishly said as two dozen curious faces swung around toward...