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...about 5 oz. of red meat a day, roughly the equivalent of a small steak, according to lead author Rashmi Sinha - had a 31% higher risk of death over a 10-year period than men in the lowest-consumption quintile, who ate less than 1 oz. of red meat per day, or approximately three slices of corned beef. Men in the top fifth also had a 22% higher risk of dying of cancer and a 27% higher risk of dying of heart disease. In women, the figures were starker: women in the highest quintile of consumption had a 36% increase...
...budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already made significant sacrifices by scaling back his campaign promises in the current budget. To make the numbers balance under a rosier outlook, Obama shrunk the size of the "Make-Work-Pay" tax credit by 20%, to $800 per family. He slowed down his foreign aid spending plans, scrapped a plan to reduce income taxes for the elderly, and proposed higher taxes for wealthy taxpayers who make charitable contributions...
...though the prospect of more and more high school students becoming parents is worrisome, school-age teens still represent a small percentage of unmarried mothers. The birthrate for teenagers ages 15 to 17 is about 22 per 1,000, while their older peers ages 18 and 19 are having three times as many babies, almost 74 for every 1,000. Even higher is the rate for unmarried women in their 20s, who now make up the majority of single mothers...
...India, the answer for now seems to be no. Though there was talk of canceling the second season of the Premier League, the IPL looks set to start on April 10 per the original schedule. Security has been beefed up. Players - the teams feature the best in the world from Australia and South Africa to Sri Lanka and the West Indies - will be restricted to the ground and their hotels. Fans will have their bags checked more thoroughly. But the game will go on. "I think we don't have much of [a] choice in this," says Kumar Sangakkara...
...nationalist bestseller that complained about the influence of the West and the U.S. in particular on China. Thirteen years later, the authors of Unhappy China point to the protests along the route of the Olympic flame, complaints about pollution from China by Western nations that consume far more resources per capita, and the West's unwillingness to share key technology with China as examples of continuing foreign disdain for the Middle Kingdom. Song Qiang, who contributed to both China Can Say No and Unhappy China, writes in the latest work that China should reduce the importance of Sino-French relations...