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...obesity "epidemic" may finally be leveling off. Researchers led by Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed survey data gathered between 1999 and 2006, and found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among American schoolchildren has plateaued at about 32%. After years of rapid increase - the percentage of 6- to 11-year-olds classified as obese rose from 6.5% in 1980 to 16.3% in 2002 - that sounds like good news. "We can be cautiously optimistic that it seems to be leveling off in recent years," says Ogden...
...against anyone in that part of the world like we did against the Soviet Union in 1969 (and that one almost got out of hand). Things are much better now, of course. But the Russians are right there, across our border, and instead of seeing our vast population and rapid economic growth as a golden economic opportunity, their military and security ministries still look at us and feel nervous. It is an anxiety Nikita Khrushchev wrote about ages ago and it hasn't changed.. The Russians see the vast relative emptiness of their own land mass - and the riches...
...response was rapid and the apologies numerous following the revelation that an American soldier had used a copy of the Koran for target practice, riddling the Islamic holy book with 14 bullets at a target range near Baghdad on May 9. Within days, top military brass held a ceremony apologizing for the incident and expressed their regret to Iraqi officials; President Bush called Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki personally to apologize. The Army said the soldier, who remains unnamed, was quickly disciplined and removed from Iraq. Meanwhile, Baghdad officials called for harsher punishment...
...believe they will be ready and the U.S. can stand down when the Iraqis have their own air power. No modern ground force can succeed without air reconnaissance, weapons deployment or the rapid recovery of the injured. The U.S. would never send our troops on any mission without air support. But it seems the U.S. has no plans to allow the Iraqis a fully equipped air force. Paul Schrader, SANDWICH, MASS...
...Graduate School of Business used kidney dialysis as a benchmark. Every year dialysis saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who would otherwise die of renal failure while waiting for an organ transplant. It is also the one procedure that Medicare has covered unconditionally since 1972 despite rapid and sometimes expensive innovations in its administration. To tally the cost-effectiveness of such innovations Zenios and his colleagues ran a computer analysis of more than half a million patients who underwent dialysis, adding up costs and comparing that data to treatment outcomes. Considering both inflation and new technologies...