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...British children's reading and spelling abilities were dramatically improved when their diets were supplemented with fish oils containing omega-3 fatty acids - essential for brain development but missing from modern processed foods. Schools and parents are finally waking up to the notion that poor diet is making kids fatter, angrier and less able to learn. The health-and-nutrition class at St. Joan of Arc, for instance, is part of a government-sponsored effort to tackle child obesity. Funded by European food and drug companies and France's Ministry of Health, the program is designed to make healthy eating...
Narda Zacchino, editor of the Times's Orange County edition, has reacted to the challenge partly by wooing away some of her competitor's brightest stars with fatter paychecks. (Register salaries average $575 a week, compared with the Times's $775.) Even Zacchino acknowledges, however, that the Register's look is an advantage difficult to overcome. "If a reader sees the same stories on the front of the Times and the Register, he will probably buy the Register for the color," says Zacchino. The Register enjoys another advantage: its home-delivery price is $5.25 a week, while the Times costs...
...hails her as a pioneer for her groundbreaking junk-food ban, which takes on suppliers such as Coca-Cola and Frito-Lay that count on selling to schools to establish brand loyalty in kids. Like a growing number of youngsters in the U.S., kids in Texas have been getting fatter. Over a third of all school-age children in the state are overweight or obese, far worse than the national rate of 10% to 15%. By 2040, the costs of treating those kids when they become obese adults is expected to hit $40 billion a year for Texas alone...
Three and a half years later those same squinting first-years stumble out a little fatter, a little paler, squinting not with ambition but with aversion to the sunlight they had forgotten...
...name money to the industry. Carl Icahn, the 1980s corporate raider who once controlled TWA and Texaco, is raising $3 billion for a hedge fund. He will probably use his new war chest to amass large positions in companies and then agitate for change. And Icahn plans to charge fatter fees: up to 3% of assets and 30% of profits...