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...childhood obesity rate is comparable to that in the U.S., where obesity in children aged between six and 11 has tripled over the past three decades, which may be why a few U.S. states already send reports on heavy kids home to parents. The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, published a paper in November 2006 describing the "risks and benefits of BMI reporting in the school setting", and in May 2007, Wyoming started a program in which students' report cards came complete with their...
...free lunch.” Because of the misconception that microcredit is based in philanthropy, some of its lending practices have become lightning rods for debate. In the past few years, a number of MFIs were the focus of criticism after charging their clients extremely high annual interest rates. In perhaps the most famous case, Banco Compartamos of Mexico was found to be charging a rate of over 100% on loans to their customers. In Cambodia, the annual interest rates are somewhere between 30% and 40%, which is still very large. As an outsider, these number may suggest that...
...unlike asking a new cell-phone owner to pay in advance for a decade's worth of minutes. But that equation will change as the cost of solar panels drops and the price of fossil-fuel-generated electricity rises. (Letvin's utility provider just put in for a 30% rate increase for the heaviest power users.) Photovoltaic solar installations were up 45% last year compared with 2006, with about a third of those systems going on residential roofs. And now solar companies and banks are helping homeowners stretch the cost over the lifetime of the panels, and sunny California...
Doctors argue that what may seem like a low-risk pregnancy can go very wrong at the time of delivery--and that making home birth easier to access could lead to a huge step backward. After birthing moved to hospitals en masse in the 1950s, the maternal mortality rate plummeted, from 376 per 100,000 live births in 1940 to 37.1 per 100,000 in 1960. The most recent statistics show 15.1 deaths per 100,000. Many doctors fear that mortality rates will go up with the rising incidence of home birthing, but there are conflicting data on this...
...Atlanta HIV Rate Revisited The Centers for Disease Control has been undercounting the number of new HIV cases in the U.S. Revised figures put the number of newly infected Americans at 55,000 to 58,500 per year instead of 40,000. The overall rate has been stable since the 1990s but is still alarmingly high among gay men and African Americans...