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...place to begin that transformation is in schools, since that's where children spend much of their waking lives--and ingest up to 50% of their daily calories. Here, Arkansas--a state that has had one of the nation's highest rates of childhood obesity--is in the vanguard. Led by Joseph Thompson, director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, the state in 2004 began tracking the BMI of more than 400,000 children, sending home confidential health reports to parents. BMI is an imperfect metric since it often mistakes a stocky or muscular kid for an obese...
...bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white kid in the hills of West Virginia--no one asks to be born into an environment where obesity seems to be the default fate. "This is probably the most important public-health...
...from his home to the popular shopping district and plowed his rented truck into a crowd before leaping out of the vehicle and frantically stabbing innocent bystanders. Seven people were killed in the incident, which followed a disquieting series of random stabbings in recent months in a nation where violent crime is comparatively rare. A Cabinet spokesman said the government would look into tightening restrictions on knives in the wake of the attack...
...Last year's energy-bill mandates include billions of dollars of private investment to improve efficiency of vehicles, lighting and appliances and call for replacing 15% of our gasoline with alternatives. These efforts will cut billions of tons of greenhouse gases. With the U.S. investing more than any other nation to advance new technologies, Sachs should join the country in urging the rest of the G-8 and other major countries to do their part. James L. Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality, WASHINGTON...
...Justice Scalia added that the U.S. is "at war with radical Islamists," and that the Boumediene ruling "will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed." Scalia warned, "The nation will live to regret what the court has done today...