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That obesity impairs health is well-established. Crosnoe's study takes a different tack by highlighting the psychosocial disadvantages of being young and overweight. He says that if the general public discussion about obesity seems "overblown," then perhaps a shift in focus to how obesity can affect education, the future workforce and economic inequality, will allow health and educational professionals and the public a new approach to a discussion of the disease. Crosnoe's upcoming book Fitting In, Standing Out will focus on the effects of social marginalization on education...
...Nintendo trying to make games more appealing to female players? -Rosendo Leon, Vista, CaliforniaI wasn't the one who created Metroid, but I have long been interested in games with females playing the lead role and I think we will continue to see more. Nintendo doesn't try to focus on games that specifically appeal to females-we just try to create games with a universal appeal...
...Latino population and growing. Says the Rev. Walter Contreras, a leader in the 1,200-member Network of Hispanic Pastors of Southern California: "We've always been on board with [Anglo] Evangelicals. How can they not be on board with an issue that means so much to us? Focus on the Family--how can you not focus on our families, which are being divided by deportations...
...sometimes seemed distracted on this tour, as if holding something back during so many sessions with so many needy people, his passion had been building since the night before in Pittsburgh, as he weaved stories from the past two days into his remarks and brought into sharp focus the themes of his poverty tour: That it is wrong for millions of Americans to have no medical care. That it is wrong for millions of Americans to work full time yet live in poverty. And on Wednesday he began linking the problems of the poor to the economic anxieties...
...Once the U.S. decides to pull its forces back, the security risks to troops leaving the battlefield would increase, and the faster the U.S. withdraws, the greater the dangers. Departing troops lose their focus and become easy targets, says Pagonis. Local militias usually try to prove their mettle by firing at departing columns. "It would be ugly," says retired Army General Barry McCaffrey, who supports a partial withdrawal. "You'd burn or blow up a lot of your equipment or hand it over to the Iraqis. You'd be subject to attack on your way down to the coast because...