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...second, larger study in the NEJM came to similar conclusions. By comparing the childhood medical records and adulthood hospital records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976, researchers found a distinct correlation between higher childhood body mass index (BMI) - the ratio between height and weight that is the standard for defining obesity - and a greater risk of future heart disease and heart disease-related death. According to the authors, it is the first study to conclusively link excess weight in childhood and health problems later on. What's more, the data showed that the correlation is linear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifelong Effects of Childhood Obesity | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Perhaps this shift in the nature of activism speaks to the progress of pragmatism and compromise. Instead of mass militancy and invective, our generation appears inclined to dialogue and public service. While picketing may have waned in popularity as a tool of dissent, service groups within the Institute of Politics and the Philips Brooks House Association thrive today as they never have before...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Against Apathy, Always | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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Author: By Inge-lise Ameer, Tom A. Dingman, Jim N. Mancall, and Monique Rinere | Title: First-Year Advising Deserves More Praise | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...following the Founding Fathers," Teixeira said. Andrew L. Schlafly, Jr. '10, who chairs Harvard Students for Huckabee, pointed out a Rasmussen poll released yesterday that, for the first time, shows former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leading among Republican primary voters nationwide. But the representative for former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, David A. Lorch '08 was bullish nonetheless. "Support a candidate who really has a chance of winning," he told Paul's supporters. Schlafly drew attention to policy details. Speaking about illegal immigration, he said that while Huckabee believes in being tough on illegal immigrants, unlike other candidates, he does...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Republican Students Lead Mock Debate | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...aficionados of warfare know that only nuclear weapons are true weapons of mass destruction. Chemical and biological weapons, even when delivered by missiles, are more effective at spreading terror than death and destruction. And a missile crammed with high explosives is little more than a flying car bomb - and not nearly as accurate. U.S. officials may struggle to convince skeptics that the threat they pose justify the costs, in all senses, of a missile shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Missile Shield: NIE Casualty? | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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