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...seconds - but the damage caused by the 6.9-magnitude quake was impressive. It killed 63 people, injured thousands and caused $7 billion worth of damage throughout California's Bay Area, including major destruction to the Oakland Bay Bridge. "It was a good sized shock," says Peter Yanev, chairman of Risk Solutions International and the author of Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country. (See pictures of San Francisco...
...board of the U.K.'s National Obesity Forum. The issue of whether parents should lose custody of their obese children took center stage two years ago with a British television documentary about Connor McCreaddie, an 8-year-old who weighed more than 200 lbs. and was at risk of being taken from his mother by authorities. She eventually weaned him off processed foods and retained custody...
...food and told to finish what's on the plate, they'll eat it, and without exercise get bigger and bigger," says Tam Fry, chairman of Britain's Child Growth Foundation, who is lobbying obesity experts to consider overnutrition a form of child abuse. (Read "Mother's Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects...
...Since the virus has emerged, we've seen a number of groups that are at higher risk for complications from H1N1, and these include children under 5 and especially children younger than 2," says Bill Hall, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services. "Infants younger than 6 months cannot receive the H1N1 vaccine because their immune systems are not developed enough to tolerate it," he adds. To date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 76 deaths of people under age 18. For day-care centers, that means more than just a risk...
Without comprehensible lyrics, the entire album relies heavily on its musical originality to justify its artistic endeavor, taking a risk with highly artificial melodies and voice tracks. “Youth Tunes” initiates the record with a synthesizer and a staccato guitar rhythm, while an odd, indiscernible voice warbles in the background and the guitar strums become progressively more ravaging. “Imaginary Friends” insists on an innocent nostalgia with its lilting yet pressing “oh’s,” attempting to pass off its gibberish as distinguishable lyrics...