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...York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof has managed to do the impossible - every week he gets away with devoting some of journalism's most valuable real estate to neglected, often depressing, causes. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has reported from 140 countries and raised awareness about Asian sex trafficking, public health crises in pre-earthquake Haiti, and the genocide in Darfur. Now he's the subject of Reporter, a documentary that premieres February 18 on HBO. TIME writer Amy Sullivan caught up with Kristof in-between his trips to Congo and the Middle East. "For some reason, I never seem...
Lobbyists’ most important means of influence, however, is personal. Lobbying firms and organizations are overwhelmingly composed of former House and Senate staffers of both parties and even former Congressmen and Senators. Take the health care debate as an example. The Senate health care bill was largely the baby of Senator Max Baucus, who, as Finance Committee chairman, had jurisdiction over the issue. Health industry interests, including pharmaceutical and insurance companies, hired a total of seven former Baucus aides to lobby him, including at least two of his former chiefs of staff. In total, the Washington Post counted...
Over the course of 16 years, a team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health tracked a pool of 35,794 female nurses and analyzed the dietary habits of the subjects’ mothers while they were pregnant. Of the nurses followed in the study, 199 developed...
Nurses whose mothers drank at least four glasses of milk a day were 56 percent less likely to develop MS than those whose mothers drank less than three glasses per month, according to the study’s lead author, Fariba Mirzaei of the School of Public Health...
...election year, their severely endangered leader risks going from a herder of cats to a cat in the herd - pushed and buffeted by too many competing forces. And nothing can pass the Senate - not a scaled-down $15 billion jobs bill or an $800-plus billion health care overhaul - by herd mentality...