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...mother was healthy and the pregnancy normal. But as soon as her baby was born, doctors were struck by the infant's extraordinary muscularity. By 7 months, he had a bodybuilder's pumped-up proportions. Researchers determined that the baby had a double dose of a mutation that inactivates a protein that restrains muscle development (a mutation also seen in mice and cattle). While scientists hope that pinpointing the mutation will help them learn how to reverse muscle wasting from disease, they also know that someday somebody will try to parlay it into a performance-enhancing drug. --By David Bjerklie
...attention. WalMart has been drawing kids (and their parents' pocketbooks) to its stores with a marketing concept called "retailainment." In one version last fall, kids visiting WalMart received Bob the Builder coloring books and could go on a "safety scavenger hunt" that led them to the toy, hardware and infant-and-toddler departments. What's going on? Preschoolers are now considered a "highly marketable segment for certain products," says a recent report by MarketResearch.com Though you probably already know that if you have a toddler in the house. --With reporting by Eric Roston/Washington
...Whatever our views on Iraq, we never should have let it diverge our attention” from goals to combat world poverty, provide safe drinking water, increase access to primary education, reduce infant mortality and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, he said...
When Ray Charles could see, he saw nothing but trouble. As an infant, he could see, if not understand, his father walking out on him and his teenage mother Aretha. At 6 months, he and his mother moved from his birthplace, Albany, Ga., to Greenville, Fla., where all he saw was poverty, with his family being even poorer than most, "nothing below us 'cept the ground," as he put it. At age 5, he saw his younger brother George drown in a washtub. At about that time Ray developed what may have been glaucoma. He soon found he could stare...
...Whatever our views on Iraq, we never should have let it diverge our attention” from goals to combat world poverty, provide safe drinking water, increase access to primary education, reduce infant mortality, and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, he said...