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Kristie Rutzel was in high school when she began adhering precisely to the government food pyramids. As the Virginia native learned more about healthy eating, she stopped ingesting anything processed, then restricted herself to whole foods and eventually to 100% organic. By college, the 5-ft. 4-in. communications major was on a strict raw-foods diet, eating little else besides uncooked broccoli and cauliflower and tipping the scales at just 68 lb. Rutzel, now 27, has a name for her eating disorder: orthorexia, a controversial diagnosis characterized by an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy...
...American high school, students worry about getting through school with good grades and figuring out which major to pursue in college. It’s only after college that they go on to learn a profession. In Brazil, we don’t have that collegiate gap. Graduate school and college are one in the same. As soon as we leave high school, we have to choose what we’re going to do for the rest of our lives. That’s quite a responsibility for a 17-year-old, I would say. Our sole responsibility...
...this deficiency, I believe we develop stronger professionals with practical and theoretical skills that are above average. However, I also believe that although students in the U.S. may lack this focus in college, they are more mature and well-prepared to make important life decisions like choosing a major and a profession to pursue once they graduate. All in all, I believe both education systems have their advantages and disadvantages, and a lot to learn from each other...
...Australia, Melville's case has been widely covered in all major news outlets since 2008. But while the nation may have been made aware of the horrific neglect that Melville suffered, a largely unpublicized audit claims that her death was only part of a much greater problem. According to a 2007 report leaked to the Australian on Feb. 6 and written by psychologist Howard Bath, then the director of a nonprofit organization that specializes in support for child, youth and family services, the Northern Territory child-protection system is near collapse. Today, just over two years after Australia apologized...
Almost exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck and other dazzling minds of the era gathered at the Solvay Library in Brussels for a major physics conference. Meeting in the same neo-classical library on Thursday to find an urgent solution to Greece's debt crisis and save the imperiled euro, European Union leaders would probably have relished the chance to connect with those bygone eggheads for inspiration. But no matter - their decision, as it turns out, was a no-brainer. In an emphatic message to the speculators around the world who are betting billions...