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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...installment of the game—that has frequently been seen as controversial due to its portrayal of violence—on teenage behavior. But in their recently published book Grand Theft Childhood, Medical School Professors Cheryl K. Olson and Lawrence A. Kutner say that this link may be more tenuous than previously thought. In 2004, Olson and Kutner began a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice to tease out the connection between the two variables. They found that video games do not affect all children equally and that the effect on behavior is not solely...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Questions Video Game Violence | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity studies that question. Though the science has been less than conclusive about the precise health risk factors obese children will face in the future, Freedman's research shows at least one clear link: obesity persists, from childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Obese Kids Become Obese Adults? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

Washington, who discovered his genetic link to the Mende people of Sierra Leone and will earn his Sierra Leonean citizenship next month, extended this idea to all African Americans. He said he urges African American celebrities to take up the cause, as well...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sierra Leone Panel Focuses on Future | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Achilles' heels is a very antiquated communications system. We use 1950s technology to communicate in a 2010 environment. The frustrating thing is, there are incredible technologies available for communicating - via data-link or digital voice radio systems - and I've seen people die because we haven't implemented those technologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Controller Sounds Alarm | 4/26/2008 | See Source »

...really fairly simple. We're using a CB radio with a little bit higher power. If you fast-forward to the way we communicate over cell phones or the Internet, or data-link technology, all those technologies are available, and we're not using them. We're stuck in the CB radio, Smokey Bear days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Controller Sounds Alarm | 4/26/2008 | See Source »

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