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...concerned that your child's baby fat has ballooned into a more serious problem, join the club. About 18% of American children aged 6 to 19 are now overweight, and childhood obesity rates are rising around the world. But what does early overweight mean for youngsters in adulthood: will overweight kids necessarily become overweight - and unhealthy - grown-ups? Epidemiologist David Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity studies that question. Though the science has been less than conclusive about the precise health risk factors obese children will face...
...country’s literacy rate is highest in all of Africa. Until last year Zimbabwe was self-sufficient in canned and processed food. However, this year, according to UN World Food Programme estimates, 4.2 million Zimbabweans—a third of the population—will face serious food shortages. Many Zimbabweans have been forced to survive on one meal a day. Aid agencies are unlikely to gather enough support from the rest of the world as Zimbabwe has an appalling credit history. After defaulting on its foreign loans in 2004, Zimbabwe was suspended from the International Monetary Fund...
...shrieks came for a trio of moppy-headed teenagers, who someone identified to me as the Jonas Brothers, a hot new teenie-bop sensation, like a grade-school version of the Monkees with better hair. They wore tight pants and looked terrified, staying close to their bodyguard, a serious-looking fellow roughly the size of a compact European...
...torch relay in Nagano came off without serious incident because it had to. The public was not allowed at the car park where the relay began at 8:30 a.m., after the Zenkoji monks held a prayer ceremony for victims of the recent uprising in Tibet. Shortly afterwards, pro-Chinese demonstrators yelled "Zhongguo, jia you!" (which means "China, go for it!") at pro-Tibet demonstrators who yelled back "Free Tibet." That dialogue continued at high volume throughout most of the 5-hour relay...
...neurons. Therein lies the problem. If it looks like chicken and tastes like chicken, then why isn’t it chicken?The answer that PETA offers is that since no whole animals are killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises some serious ethical questions. Is a vegetarian who eats in vitro meat still a vegetarian? Similar problems can easily be imagined for any other individual with dietary restrictions. For example, Jewish kashrut and Islamic halal both restrict the consumption of pork. Would pork grown in vitro or tissues that taste like pork...