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...professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, N.Y., who chaired the panel that issued the new recommendations. "They run the risk of being too full to get adequate breast milk or formula." Children who are one to six years old can drink as much as 6 oz. of juice a day. Those ages 7 to 18 should consume no more than 8 to 12 oz...
...stop singing. In the '30s, perhaps a third of all films were, in some way, musicals. Top Broadway composers went West and wrote tunes that were the most popular of their day and still play in the nation's memory-jukebox; Harold Arlen's score for The Wizard of Oz is entrancing TV audiences 60 years after it was written. Pop music shared center stage with operetta (in Jeanette MacDonald's films) and boogie-woogie (in shorts showcasing such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington...
DIED. JACK HALEY JR., 67, Emmy Award-winning director as well as producer and prolific documentarian who directed the 1974 star-studded That's Entertainment; in Santa Monica, Calif. Haley, whose father played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, was married five years to Liza Minnelli...
...phones, is sashaying into the market for combination phone-organizers with the SPH-1300 ($400). Billed as a hipper alternative to Kyocera's powerful but rather homely Smartphone, the SPH-1300 has the sleek good looks and 256-color screen of a high-end Palm. It weighs just 6 oz. and is about 5 in. long. There is no keypad, though, so you will have to dial with a stylus or by voice. It will be available in August through Sprint...
...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross over the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes...