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...otherwise perfectly healthy be given growth hormones to make him or her taller? That's the question facing thousands of parents in the wake of the Food and Drug Administration's decision last month to approve the use of human growth hormone (HGH) for children whose predicted adult height is less than 5 ft. 3 in. for boys and 4 ft. 11 in. for girls. Before the decision, HGH had been approved only for children whose short stature was due to a medical condition...
...about it, but now pediatricians say they are determined to do something about it--the epidemic of childhood obesity, that is. In a no-nonsense policy statement devoted to the growing problem, the American Academy of Pediatrics has called for its members to go beyond their routine tracking of height and weight. Pediatricians are being urged to identify children most at risk for obesity (taking into account birth weight, family history, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors), then carefully track their body mass index--a ratio of weight to height--and watch for significant changes from year to year. Early...
THESE SHOES WERE MADE FOR ... WALKING? This extensive collection of shoes from around the world concentrate on the rise from sensiblity to the height of fashion. 60 pairs of shoes, sandals and boots are exhibited from different cultures and different times. The ethnographic collection from the Peabody Library should appeal to shoe and fashion aficianados alike. Through Feb. 2004. Tozzer Library, 21 Divinity Ave. Free with Harvard...
When he was at the height of his first fame--with his top-rated radio program, his 12-year run in the top 10 at the movie box office--he set a tone for us junior-high wisecrackers that resonates to this day in our inner monologues and in our snap-dash dinner-table zappers. Give us enough gag writers (reportedly underpaid and overworked in his case) and a vast file of jokes (which he stored in a fireproof vault), and we thought we might, on a good night...
...found himself in during his candidacy. His detractors at the House of Bishops conference in Minneapolis argued that the confirmation could split the American Episcopal church. It drew condemnation from many Anglicans worldwide.?Still, New Hampshire Episcopalians have a proud tradition of standing up to conservative traditions. At the height of clashes over civil right in the 1960s, a seminarian from the state was murdered defending a young black woman being threatened by a gunman in Mississippi. Today, while the diocese is made up of only 49 congregations, most of them in outlying rural areas, it has roughly 20 ordained...