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...along the line NPR wavered in the journey. Our show is the most multiracial in NPR's entire history, it has the youngest demographic of any show in NPR's history, so progress was being made. My concern was the pace the network was moving at-- it wasn't fast enough...
...helping build a fledgling music-video channel into one of the most powerful global media brands, Judy McGrath, 51, has always stayed in touch with what she likes to call her "inner teen." Now that she has taken over the reins at all of parent company Viacom's vast, fast-growing cable operations, including MTV, MTV2, VH-1, CMT, Nickelodeon, TV Land and Comedy Central, you might think she would need to get more in tune with her outer adult. But being responsible for the crown jewel of Sumner Redstone's empire--generating nearly $3 billion in profits this year...
...consider his new initiatives. But foreigners may be reaching their saturation point when it comes to funding the U.S.'s profligate lifestyle. The nation sucks up 80% of the world's available savings. If the dollar loses its cachet, foreigners will demand higher interest rates, which, if they rise fast or far enough, could topple the economy...
...Matthew Walker at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to investigate sleep's effects on procedural memory for motor skills. They asked right-handed test subjects to type a sequence of numbers (for example, 4-1-3-2-4) with their left hand over and over again as fast as they could. No matter what time of day they learned the task, their accuracy improved 60% to 70% after six minutes of practice. When subjects who learned the sequence in the morning were retested 12 hours later, they hadn't significantly improved. But when those who learned the sequence...
Keeping a closer eye on kids is one way to solve the problem. The other solutions are equally straightforward. First, children must take their medicines, and parents must understand how all of them work. Fast-acting inhalers--the so-called rescue drugs--are intended for acute attacks. If your child needs the inhaler more than twice a week, you may be doing something wrong. Daily medications like corticosteroids to reduce inflammation and bronchodilators to control constriction help prevent attacks. Those are the drugs that parents tend to neglect since they don't act immediately and it's therefore tougher...