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...urgent that the government seems ready to spend what it would take to truly revive the dead zone. Although Grumbles points out that an action plan isn't the same thing as a budget allocation, there's little evidence that anyone is prepared to bear the financial burden of drastically reducing fertilizer runoff in the Midwest. (It doesn't help that 31 states feed into the Mississippi River basin, or that multiple federal agencies are involved with the dead-zone task force.) A 2007 report by the National Research Council called for more aggressive leadership by the EPA to coordinate...
...think rural kids at least spend more time outside, working off the extra calories they consume every day, think again. Country life isn't what it looked like on Lassie. "You say rural, and you think kids are on the farm, lifting hay bales," says Probst. "But they don't do that anymore." What they do is the same thing other kids do, which is to say they spend more and more time inside, in front of a screen--even more so since their homes are a lot likelier than those of suburban kids to lie next to a four...
...place to begin that transformation is in schools, since that's where children spend much of their waking lives--and ingest up to 50% of their daily calories. Here, Arkansas--a state that has had one of the nation's highest rates of childhood obesity--is in the vanguard. Led by Joseph Thompson, director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, the state in 2004 began tracking the BMI of more than 400,000 children, sending home confidential health reports to parents. BMI is an imperfect metric since it often mistakes a stocky or muscular kid for an obese...
...great that companies used to hand out checks for scholarships or to clean up litter," says Seabright, "but increasingly the real relevance is using the company's core competence to address issues that are of societal concern." In its CSR initiatives, Coke last year announced it would spend $20 million over five years to help the WWF preserve seven of the world's major rivers. The firm is also working with partners on conservation projects in water-stressed areas throughout the world...
...contenders? McCain might turn to his longtime hero Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Excitement is hardly what Obama needs, but he could pick a woman, such as Sebelius or Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, who might force McCain to spend more time in his otherwise safe home state...