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...study also found that nine to 14-year-olds who increased their consumption of fast food gained weight at faster than normal rates. Boys who ate fried food away from home more than four times per week had a BMI of 19.3, while boys who did not eat fried foods as often had a BMI of 19.1. A BMI of 25 is considered clinically overweight...

Author: By Adrian J. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kids Eat More Fried Food | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

There are black people at Harvard. Hundreds of black people, actually. And we're normal students...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: Public Service Announcement | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...just 60 people worldwide, will mutate into something more easily spread among humans. Makers of flu vaccines can't simultaneously produce both bird-flu and regular-flu varieties in sufficient quantity. Shift gears too early, and it could be a false alarm, and millions of Americans who get the normal flu vaccine every year would have to go without, probably resulting in thousands of preventable deaths. Shift gears too late, and there would be no time to produce enough vaccine before the bird flu hit, potentially killing millions. Both before and right after his August vacation, President Bush was briefed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bracing for Bird Flu | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

Although the program’s normal question-and-answer session was cut short due to time constraints, Maathai managed to speak to students’ requests for advice on how women, especially African women, can achieve the kind of leadership Maathai exhibits...

Author: By Anne P. Steptoe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner Speaks at IOP | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...political part is what worries Glatze. "I don't think the gay movement understands the extent to which the next generation just wants to be normal kids. The people who are getting that are the Christian right," he says. Indeed, several of those I met at the Exodus event had come not because they thought it would make them straight or even because they are particularly fervent Christians. Instead, they were there because they find something empty about gay culture--a feeling that Exodus exploits with frequent declamations about gays' supposed promiscuity and intemperance. "I'm just not attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Gay Teens | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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