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...past couple of years haven't been kind to the European Union: it's been battered by the recession, buffeted by the Greek debt crisis and bypassed by a host of dynamic, emerging nations. The E.U. is desperate for a magic potion to revitalize its creaking economy, but it may have to settle for something less dramatic. On Wednesday, the European Commission will unveil a 10-year plan outlining the first tentative steps toward forming a common economic policy. The "Europe 2020" strategy is being touted as a way to boost competitiveness and growth over the next decade. Skeptics, however...
...Another was when I went to the hearing on whether we should label cloned [genetically modified] meats. I didn't even know there was such as thing as cloned meats. When a representative said, I think it's not in the consumer's interest to give them this kind of information and that it would be too confusing to the consumer, that made me realize that we were making a film that was about more than just food, it was about our rights. (See the top 10 most dangerous foods...
...hard to avoid logging screen time of some kind on a daily basis, and that's true even in young children. Babies in the U.S. start watching TV early on, with educational DVDs and television shows designed to encourage early language development in pre-preschoolers...
...final session in the lab, the researchers observed parents and their youngsters as they watched Baby Wordsworth together; the children's ability to learn words in these situations was enhanced. "What we are finding in our study is that the DVD itself is not a substitute for that kind of live social interaction," says Richert. "For children under the age of 2, social interaction is key to their ability to learning something like words." (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...Dana-Farber research is the first of its kind. Part of an ongoing, larger examination of pediatric palliative care, the survey asked the parents about their attitudes toward hastening the death of their children (by the time of the study, the children's deaths had occurred between one and 10 years earlier) as well as their more current reactions to two hypothetical vignettes about children with fatal cancers. One vignette involved uncontrollable pain at the end of life, while the other involved irreversible coma. In both situations, the parents became more likely to endorse hastening death as the level...