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...gratitude, allowed Hmong to immigrate to America, and they settled primarily in the upper Midwest at the invitation of religious groups offering to sponsor them. Today 46,000 Hmong live in Wisconsin and 60,000 in Minnesota. St. Paul, home to 24,000 Hmong, has the highest concentration in the U.S. Over the years, they have established themselves as hardworking, middle-class business owners, their stores helping gentrify the once dilapidated University Avenue in St. Paul. They have gained seats on school boards and the city council, and in 2001 a Hmong woman was elected to the Minnesota state senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre in the Woods | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Highest-rated shows Among men 18-49, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The American Money Machine | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...over a period of 24 years and then, when the women were between the ages of 70 and 84, performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise in BMI, the risk of temporal-lobe atrophy increased between 13% and 16%. The temporal lobes, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Body And Mind | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...that tracked coffee drinkers in the U.S. over a period of 18 years, doctors found that men who drank at least six cups a day were half as likely to develop diabetes, while women cut their risk 30%. In a separate study in Finland, which boasts the world's highest per capita coffee consumption, people who drank three to four cups of coffee a day had an almost 30% lower risk of diabetes, and serious caffeine users (more than 10 cups a day) cut their risk 60%. It's not clear whether the coffee was directly responsible for the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A To Z | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...It’s the highest competition we’ve had in years,...They’re all popular and have broad support,” Silvestri said...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Downer Elected HRC President | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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