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...second, larger study in the NEJM came to similar conclusions. By comparing the childhood medical records and adulthood hospital records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976, researchers found a distinct correlation between higher childhood body mass index (BMI) - the ratio between height and weight that is the standard for defining obesity - and a greater risk of future heart disease and heart disease-related death. According to the authors, it is the first study to conclusively link excess weight in childhood and health problems later on. What's more, the data showed that the correlation is linear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifelong Effects of Childhood Obesity | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...really don’t know who the United States wants to go to war with,” he quipped, noting that U.S. defense spending today is higher than it was at the height of the Cold War. “No one wants to go to war with the United States...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gorbachev Defends Putin’s Leadership | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

Several signatories said their own undergraduate experience when civil rights and Vietnam War protests were at their height made them particularly attuned to the lack of visible campus activism...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Protest Student Apathy | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...historical sensitivity from the internment camps of the previous generation. Reception might vary, too, in the portrayed countries themselves—“The Mikado” opened for the first time in Japan in the summer of 1946, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the height of American military domination. The leads of the play were all American, Canadian and British, and the audience was entirely GI. Joseph Raben, an editor of translations at the time in Tokyo, called the performance an “impudent but magnificent gesture, a tribute to their culture...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: Orientalism and ‘The Mikado’ | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...which provides prosthetics and helps rehabilitate land mine victims and other disabled Afghans. Tens of thousands of mine victims will need health care and assistance for the rest of their lives, and there has been a chronic lack of resources to meet those needs. Opened in 1988 at the height of the war against the Soviet Union, the organization's Afghanistan orthopedic programs have treated more than 76,000. But they don't stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad Ortho Center in Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Decade of De-mining | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

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