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...weight between the ages of 5 and 7 - what researchers call the adiposity-rebound period, during which excessive weight gain usually predicts adult obesity. Regardless of factors like race or ethnicity, birth weight and maternal weight gain or age, researchers found that the risk of a child becoming overweight rose in step with the mother's blood-sugar level during pregnancy...
...replacement rolls back the executive branch's influence and calls for nearly half the senate to be appointed instead of elected as before. The military is also given certain supervisory powers over the democratically elected leader. The upshot: Thailand could soon return to days when weak coalition governments rose and fell with the predictability of the monsoons...
...strong as ever. A Pew Hispanic Center study released today shows Latino immigrants, legal and illegal, have made progress in the wage race: the proportion of foreign-born Latinos in the lowest fifth of all earners declined from 1995-2005 from 42% to 36%. And many workers rose up into the middle brackets...
...what's the solution? Perhaps that there is no solution, or at least no simple one - aside from just flying less, as the Heathrow activists demanded. And there's little sign of that happening, as air passenger numbers rose 6.3% globally through the first half of 2007. So, expect similar protests in the future. The activists at Heathrow threw out a moral challenge to those well-off on a global scale (anyone who can afford a JetBlue ticket) to stop flying in order to save the poor from the effects of climate change. It's not quite that simple...
...middle class can live, work, shop and play. To do all that, though, DLF needs a lot more money, which is why on July 5 the company held an initial public offering for just over 10% of the company, bringing in some $2.24 billion. DLF's shares rose 14% by early August, giving it a market capitalization of $25.5 billion--roughly $5 billion more than General Motors. The IPO netted Singh and several family members, who together hold 87% of DLF, nearly $20 billion--enough to make them one of the richest clans in the world. "Frankly, that is embarrassing...