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...with heart disease in adulthood. The consequences for the country's already overburdened health care system - not to mention the lives of overweight and obese kids - could be catastrophic. Even if recent interventions have managed to stop the rise in childhood obesity, saving the most at-risk groups - especially poor minorities - could require far more time, money and energy. Obesity experts see few other options. As an editorial accompanying the JAMA paper concludes: "without substantial declines in prevalence, the public health toll of childhood obesity will continue to mount...
...Ernesto Guevara's two rebel campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia, was denied the Palme d'Or many expected, but Benicio del Toro, the film's indefatigable star, was named Best Actor. The Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played the pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thompson. At the ceremony, Thompson revealed that Corveloni was herself pregnant and had just lost the child. She said the award would be balm to the actress...
This was hardly the finale that Marulanda envisioned after so many years of armed struggle. He was still in his teens, the son of a poor farming family in Colombia's northwestern Antioquia province, when he went into the mountains in 1948 as a Liberal partisan fighting against Conservative paramilitary gangs. This was the start of Colombia's decades-long fratricidal slaughter, la violencia. When it ended in the early 1960s, revolutionaries like Marulanda found the new Liberal-Conservative establishment as corrupt and oppressive as the old guard; and so he founded the FARC in 1964. That sparked a bloody...
...bull! You shouldn't be allowed to show the suicide of a Nazi family." But for classes of high-school teenagers brought to the gallery, the show is an eye-opener. Even two generations removed, the pictures strike very close to home. "I was frightened to see that poor dead lady lying in the street," said a 35-year-old Berlin lady. "That's Hallesches Ufer in Kreutzberg - I pass there every...
...snafu with the show's video feed. "I just love solving problems," she quipped. "Call me anytime. Call me at 3 a.m." Clinton's former rival John Edwards came next, joking about what he wanted from the two remaining Democratic candidates in return for his endorsement. (Help for the poor, and a pair of jet skis.) Finally, Barack Obama chimed in via satellite, doing a riff on the tough debate questions that had irked him two nights before. "I think the American people are tired of these games of petty distractions," he said, before adding "Distractions" to the list...