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...flip side of the weight equation is, of course, exercise, which American children are getting less of than ever before, due at least in part to television, computers and video games. According to a recent Nielsen report, kids between the ages of 2 and 11 watch an average of 20 hours of TV per week, an activity that doesn't burn many calories and tends to encourage snacking by exposing kids to all manner of food and beverage advertising. Simply turning off the tube can help kids keep off the excess weight...
...coverage as opposed to live programming," a CBS spokeswoman told the Associated Press Thursday. For its part, ABC decided it would carry the speech live, calling it an "important" event. The network interrupted the sketch comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway," which is currently ranked 86th in the Nielsen ratings...
...been accused by prosecutors of training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, faces his last appeal against extradition this month. "Britain has been too tolerant," argues Jorgen Nielsen, professor of Islamic Studies at Birmingham University. That may be so, but the question is whether the country can be tolerant and anti-terrorist at the same time...
Stig Skovlind and Malene Breining Nielsen met 21 years ago, when he was 17 and she was 19. The Danish couple went to the same school, where Stig admits he developed a crush on Malene. "When I finally caught her, we fell deeply in love. We had so much in common - so much to talk about," he says. And in 1982, 18 months after they started dating, the two moved in together. Over the years they pursued their careers - Stig is a musician and sound technician; Malene a preschool teacher - lived in a series of rented homes in Elsinore...
...audience for the Condit-Chung interview was estimated by the Nielsen folks at 23.6 million viewers...