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...states. Along with Kelly, the Peach Pit and its jovial counterman Nat (Joe E. Tata), Shannen Doherty is also back as Brenda, in a guest spot directing the school play. Tori Spelling, who at one point was in discussions to reprise the role of Donna Martin, is no longer scheduled to appear, due to a combination of timing and salary concerns...
...average, a black man living in Washington, D.C., does not live as long as a man in India, and he certainly doesn't live as long as a white man in his hometown. The reasons - just like the reasons that the Japanese and Swedes live longer than the Ukrainians, and why aborigines in Australia on average die 17 years earlier than non-aborigines - are almost entirely social, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) released today...
...seem obvious, or even inevitable, that a poor person would live a shorter, sicker life than a rich one. But consider also that a "social gradient of health" exists even among the rich: the outlandishly wealthy live healthier and longer than the rich, who live better than the merely comfortable. In every country around the world, WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health found that the very best off had better health than people a few rungs below them on the socioeconomic ladder. "Even in Sweden" - a country with a strong history of social and economic equality...
...Politicians also can no longer ignore the demographic trends that will shape the country's economic future for decades to come. An aging and increasingly retired population will drive consumption patterns and shrink the workforce. Some 20 years from now, how will the country remain productive? Who will take care of the boomers when they reach their 80s? As hard as it may be for Japan, a country proud of its traditions and its homogenous society, immigration must be increased to keep the economy vital and growing. By making such tough but farsighted policy changes today, Japan will give itself...
...students will even be able to enroll in Winnetka schools - in light of recent changes to the district's student residency requirements - and if so, how they will get there after the Sept. 2 protest. And some educators caution that keeping kids out of class, for one day or longer, could ultimately do more harm than good. Since school funding is in part tied to student attendance rates, Chicago Public Schools estimates it will lose $110 a day for each student who doesn't attend class. And the protest could also affect next year's funding, which Illinois pegs...