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...Francis found that the children who scored lower on both tasks were 30% heavier by the time they were 12, compared with kids who were better able to control their impulses. Not only did low-scoring kids gain more weight, but they also gained it faster, showing the most rapid increases in BMI over the nine years of the study's follow-up. (Read TIME's 2008 cover story "Our Super-Sized Kids...
...Maldives Going Green To Survive With his low-lying island nation at risk from rising seas caused by global warming, President Mohamed Nasheed has announced a plan to make the Maldives the world's first carbon-neutral country. Under the plan, the Maldives would generate electricity with wind turbines and solar panels and buy emissions credits from the E.U. to offset air travel for the estimated 600,000 tourists who visit its islands each year...
...scram! That's the offer that Japan made on April 1 to unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry. These immigrants, mostly from Brazil and Peru, had previously obtained special visas to do manufacturing work in Japan for companies like Toyota. With the number of available jobs at a six-year low, the nation can no longer afford to pay them unemployment benefits and is asking them to leave...
...unconvinced of the survey’s accuracy. Sarah B. Honig ’10 said she was impressed with the survey results, but added that the statistics might be inflated since the survey was conducted by the administration. Students may have been reluctant to give their advising experience low ratings for fear that their advisers would suffer consequences, Honig said. “They’re very impressive, but again and again, all we hear anecdotally is how unsatisfied students are with advising,” Honig said. “Something doesn’t seem...
...Education and outreach must play a larger role in the environmental movement, and this begins with increased investment in those organizations that work with low-income and inner-city communities. This population has been ignored for decades by the environmental movement and only recently received attention. Now, the challenges facing the world demand that this attention not only be continued but also be increased...