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...Daniel, 16, a sensitive kid who happens to hate being videotaped. Sensing the group's lack of energy, an E! exec appears from nowhere proffering Smith her seventh Red Bull of the day. The channel has a deal with Red Bull to install a refrigerator full of the supercaffeinated soft drinks in her bedroom. Not even Colonel Tom Parker thought of that...
...Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people. If they are not killed by accident or some other disease, these individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain...
...over a place that got its name from the plant, a tiny island called Perejil - or Leila in Arabic - that lies a short swim off the Moroccan coast. The "capture" of the long-uninhabited outcrop by Morocco and then Spain's sending its navy to retrieve it seems a soft summer story more Waugh than war. London's Daily Telegraph ran a page-wide headline: "Naval might defeats boys' slingshots." But it's not really so funny. The political waters beneath Perejil are deep and dangerous. If Spain and Morocco can't get along - and recently this has been...
...American Dietetic Association found that vegetarian diets are slightly more common among adolescents with eating problems but that "recent data suggest that adopting a vegetarian diet does not lead to eating disorders." It can be argued that most American teens already have an eating disorder--fast food, soft drinks and candy are a blueprint for obesity and heart trouble. Why should teens be expected to purge their bad habits just because they have gone veggie? Still, claims Simon Chaitowitz of the pro-vegetarian and animal-rights group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "Kids are better off being junk-food vegetarians...
...those were just the immediate casualties of the fracas. Last week, South Korea President Kim Dae Jung hurriedly sacked his Minister of Defense and reshuffled his Cabinet after a public outcry over the navy's handling of the skirmish. Conservatives have used the battle to accuse Kim of being soft on Pyongyang and to trash the President's Sunshine Policy of North-South dEtente. "The Sunshine Policy used to be a major asset for Kim and his allies," says Moon Chong In, an expert on Korean politics at Yonsei University. "All of a sudden it has become a major liability...