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...four items from the previous week's school newsletter: a student has won a state-wide competition for her Harmony Day poster, a local newspaper's front page features Malek Fahd's Remembrance Day ceremony, blood was donated and there's a bicycle safety message. "These are normal Aussie kids, doing normal things," says Dr. Ali, whose staff is 40% non-Muslim. "We don't have the ghetto mentality here. We want the students to experience the full gamut of life." He says students are involved in civics and citizenship courses and when Islam is in the news they...
...medication before you have symptoms also helps. A study of more than 5,000 prediabetic men and women found that treatment with rosiglitazone, a drug that controls blood-sugar levels, decreased their risk of progressing to diabetes 62%. About half the participants who were given the drug returned to normal blood-sugar levels, compared with 30% of those who relied on diet and exercise alone. About 41 million Americans are thought to be prediabetic...
...ended in early November and featured a whopping 42 heads of state, authorities ordered half a million official cars off the roads and said 400,000 other drivers had "volunteered" not to use their vehicles. The measures worked--for a short time. The air-pollution index fell to a normal level on the last day of the meeting. Within days, however, the smog shot back...
...Winslet's just your regular-looking movie star. (Except for her feet, which are huge--size 11--and about which she is obsessed.) "I've had two kids, and every woman out there knows that when you've had a child your body just doesn't go back to normal," she says. "I have lots of stretch marks and all the rest of it, and I'm sort of proud of all my battle wounds...
...Bigotry as Comedy Joel Stein's story on comedian Sasha Baron Cohen's movie Borat stated that "any normal person over 35 is going to find [Baron Cohen's character] Borat horrifying" [Nov. 6]. I disagree; I'm 37, and although I thought the film was as vulgar and far removed from political correctness as you can get, I was not horrified. It is an absolutely brilliant satirical look at global prejudice and unquestionably the funniest movie in years. I seriously doubt you have to be under or over a certain age to know a sharp work of satire...