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...knowing that it wards off infection and allergies still hasn't persuaded mothers to breast-feed their newborns, maybe this will. A study of 15,000 children ages 9 through 14 shows that those who were breast-fed are 20% less likely to be overweight than those who were formula-fed. That's welcome news indeed, since overweight youngsters tend to grow up into overweight adults...
...It’s a model of leadership that’s not so new,” Lester said. “We have many years to work out the details and figure out the best formula as we move along...
...Sharon is caught between his hard-line constituents' demands to raise an iron hand against the Palestinians and the outside world's pleas to pursue a diplomatic solution. Even as fresh blood soaked the soil of the disputed land, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Europe searching for a formula that could bring the enemies back to the negotiating table...
...reason for babies under six months of age to drink juice," says Dr. Susan Baker, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, N.Y., who chaired the panel that issued the new recommendations. "They run the risk of being too full to get adequate breast milk or formula." Children who are one to six years old can drink as much as 6 oz. of juice a day. Those ages 7 to 18 should consume no more than...
...particular headline is inevitable. A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies. There isn’t any magic formula for composing one; writing headlines will always require journalists to make news judgments about what is most important in the day’s events. And because the headline is the first—and sometimes the only—text a reader will see, those judgments will often influence how readers perceive an article or the issue...