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EXERCISE Rx FOR KIDS: AT LEAST AN HOUR A DAY After reviewing 850 scientific studies, an expert panel concluded in the Journal of Pediatrics that school-age children should get at least 60 min. of exercise daily--double the recommended dosage for adults. Kids can rack up their hour of activity throughout the day--before or after school or during P.E. class, recess or school sports...
...Palace says that allegations that three of Arroyo's relatives, including her husband Miguel, received money from an illegal gambling racket are just another part of the plot. Last Thursday, Sandra Cam, a 45-year-old former provincial official, told a Senate investigating panel that she delivered tens of thousands of dollars in cash to the President's son, Juan Miguel, and her husband's brother, Ignacio Arroyo. (Both men, along with Arroyo's husband, have denied getting payoffs from the so-called jueteng numbers rackets.) Arroyo responded swiftly, ordering an investigation by the Justice Department...
Representative Shays has ordered Congress's investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, to find out why the revised DBT is so small. Shays, who chairs the House Reform Committee's panel on national security and emerging threats, told TIME he believes the DBT is "artificially low" because of economic pressures. "Rather than asking what security do we need, plant operators are asking how much security can we afford," he said...
...tons of spent nuclear fuel now resting in cooling pools at all 64 power plants across the country. Choking off the water that cools these pools could trigger a radioactive fire that some scientists believe could cause as much death and disease as a reactor meltdown. The panel of the N.A.S., which is private but has a mandate to advise the Federal Government on scientific matters, said it couldn't determine whether the plants and their spent-fuel pools could be defended against attack because the NRC decided the panel "did not have a need to know this information...
...panel concluded by warning that additional study of security at the nation's nuclear plants "is needed urgently." It said twice that the review should be done by someone "independent of the NRC and the nuclear industry." That's a frightening postscript. Since 9/11, virtually everything having to do with nuclear-plant security has been in the hands of the NRC and the nuclear industry. Diaz takes offense at the N.A.S.'s pointed snub of his agency's expertise. "The recommendation was not well justified," he says. "I don't believe we need anybody to come...