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...worst of all possible sedentary activities," says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital Boston, who was not part of the study. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 should not watch any television and that older children limit their viewing to one to two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching TV: Even Worse for Kids Than You Think | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...indefinitely, it has no way of determining when a member will return an old movie, and thus when it will become available for you, the next in line. Its categories - Short Wait, Long Wait, Very Long Wait - have to be based on guesswork. For titles whose supply is very limited, could Netflix establish a one- or two-week limit, with penalties attached? And to you poky members: Watch the damn movie and send it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Fix Netflix | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...figure. But former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist cleric, was clearly not himself. For one, he was not allowed to wear his clerical robe, and he had lost visible weight. "I believe the reformists had prepared for two or three years for this election in order to limit the powers of the Supreme Leader," he declared, reading from a piece of paper. He went on to accuse three opposition leaders of forming an alliance in which they "promised to always back each other up" in their efforts to rob the presidency from the legitimate winner, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Show Trials: The Hard-Liners Build Their Case | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Back in Rome, there are no new plans to fine underage drinkers or bar and supermarket owners who sell alcohol to under-16s. A new measure imposed this month, however, does prohibit the sale of glass bottles by bars for takeaway customers, in the hopes that the law might limit boozing to drinking establishments and reduce cleanup efforts. But bar manager Leuci says the problem isn't about what laws are passed or not but how they are enforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Starts Cracking Down on Underage Drinking | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...also proved to be nearly as destructive: with many communities collectivized and converted from farming to steel production, food supply slipped behind population growth; by 1962 a massive famine had caused some 30 million deaths. In the aftermath, officials quietly resumed a propaganda campaign to limit population growth, only to be interrupted by the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in 1966; it began it again in 1969. A push under the slogan "Late, Long and Few" was successful: China's population growth dropped by half from 1970 to 1976. But it soon leveled off, prompting officials to seek more drastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's One-Child Policy | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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