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While council contenders year after year position themselves as good caretakers who will vigilantly ensure that past programs continue, keeping the council in cruise control has its own grave risk: it leads to a jaded campus who see the council as out of touch and unable to effect change. This causes internal strife within the Undergraduate Council, and it is very difficult to recover from...
Obesity, somewhat arbitrarily defined by a body mass index above 30, is a grave health hazard that continues to ravage the American population, despite widespread encouragement of healthier eating habits and moderate exercise. An increased risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, breathing problems, incontinence and birth defects are only the beginning of the extensive list of related health disturbances provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. While prevention and management strategies to combat obesity must remain a national health priority regardless of the exact number of obesity-caused deaths per year, a change in numbers translates...
This scenario, of a grave humanitarian crisis on the scale of an international emergency, can clearly describe what is happening in the Darfur region of Sudan, and it is certainly laudable that a group of Harvard students have recently begun a divestment campaign to pull University funds from investments in that country. But the portrayal above more closely describes the situation in Iraq, where American and Iraqi troops are busy uprooting and destroying entire regions of the country. Unlike the crisis in Sudan, the deaths and destruction in Iraq are the intimate responsibility of the U.S., which means that...
...from a peak of 12,901 in 1994. Teen births are down for all ages, but the drop is largest for the youngest and most vulnerable parents, and the numbers fell most sharply among blacks, the group at highest risk. Among the issues raised when kids have kids are grave medical consequences. Such births are linked to serious health risks for the mothers--16% of whom receive no prenatal care--and the babies, who are far more likely to be born preterm and three times as likely to die during their first year compared with U.S. babies overall...
Window Of Opportunity When British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Ramallah last week to leave a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave, many observers expected the government of Ariel Sharon to protest. But Israeli officials were resigned. "We snubbed officials who went to talk to Arafat when he was alive," sighed one. "We can't very well do that to those who want to talk to him when he's dead." That tempered response reflects a new mood of conciliation. With Palestinians preparing to vote on Jan. 9 for a new President, Israel last week signaled that it will allow...