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...relief over the jobless figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday morning - 247,000 jobs were lost in July, far fewer than economists had expected - a dark problem lurks in the numbers: dangerously high levels of long-term unemployment in America. Unlike recent recessions, the current economic crisis has been characterized by skyrocketing numbers of those out of work for three, six or more months at a time. Economists worry that the shock of the past year's financial crisis may have driven the U.S. into a period of permanently high unemployment similar to what Europe has suffered...
...toddler. Molly would eat "anything and everything," her mother says. "She would eat salads, but she would want three salads. She would eat broccoli but want seconds." The child was completely unlike her older siblings that way - and once she hit school age, Mom felt powerless to control the problem. "She'd go to school and eat her lunch and everyone else's," Cohn says. "I went to the pediatrician and said, 'I feel like I'm watching my daughter drown.'" Molly was nevertheless physically active and had no social problems with other kids...
...parents have a woeful lack of knowledge about basic nutrition. Doctors tell stories about patients who feed French fries and Cheetos to their children before their first birthday, for example. What's worse is that many families with overweight or obese children aren't even aware there is a problem...
...problem with health insurance," says Karen Pollitz, a health-policy expert who has studied the shortfalls of HIPAA, "is it's really complicated and fixing it part way almost never works." Some skeptics of the insurers' support this go-round believe that's what the industry is counting on, even if its advocates and defenders insist that's just what they are working to avoid...
...country didn't need another "lecture" from outsiders. That did not stop her. The Secretary of State repeatedly referenced Obama's heritage as she criticized the Kenyan government for its failure to prosecute those who helped foment election violence in early 2008 that killed some 1,200 people. The problem in Kenya is that many of those suspects are the people now in power. If Kenya does not try them, she suggested, the International Criminal Court will. "If there's not going to be a special local tribunal that has the confidence of the people, then the people deserve...