Word: journals
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...MUCH TV TURNS YOUR TUSH TO MUSH Two studies in the Journal of Pediatrics put hard numbers on the risks associated with watching more than the recommended maximum of two hours of TV a day. In one study, every extra hour of weekend TV at age 5 increased by 7% the chances of being obese at age 30. In a second study, 11-year-old girls who watched more than two hours a day were more than twice as likely to be overweight as girls who tuned in less...
...cancer was diagnosed more than 10 years ago, and like more and more breast-cancer survivors these days, she's doing just fine. In fact, survival rates have never been higher, thanks to regular mammograms and improved treatments, according to a study released last week in the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with breast-cancer awareness month. Nearly 98% of women with early-stage breast cancer today will survive at least five years. Most will live long, full lives...
...than 200 giant collages--using photos from all his films since 2003's Wonderland--in the style of his friend photographer Peter Beard (Kilmer has lots of impressive friends, from Gorby to Bob Dylan) and has exhibited the collages in galleries in Italy and Japan. He carries an idea journal everywhere, jotting thoughts for poems as well as songs for the rock album he intends to put out soon. He would like to do another musical onstage (he was Moses in last year's short-lived Ten Commandments). He's in the middle of writing three screenplays; one about Mark...
...study and said we got it wrong.”Avorn said Merck even demanded that one of its own researchers have her name removed from the study in order to distance the company from the results.The Harvard researchers ultimately decided to publish their study in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, despite Merck’s alleged requests. “We made a decision that we should let the science rule the day,” Solomon told The Wall Street Journal last November.Gaziano said he had concerns about the Harvard study. “They?...
...that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog--it works as both noun and verb--is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball...