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...ails black families. Huge unemployment, racist mortgage practices, weakened child-care support, stunted training programs for blue-collar workers who've been made obsolete by technology, and the gutting of early-childhood learning programs are all forces that must be combated. If we rightly expect more black fathers to stick around to raise their children, we've got to give them a greater opportunity to stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Rebuke of Absentee Black Fathers | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...menus in many school cafeterias are producing results or merely that some kind of saturation point has been reached, with most kids genetically susceptible to gaining too much weight having done so. "Whether this is meaningful data, we don't know yet," says Seeley. "But anyone who wants to stick a flag in this and declare victory is just crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How America's Children Packed On the Pounds | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...more connected settlements. This means you're likely to be filling up on high-calorie, processed foods, especially since fatty foods are cheaper than healthy ones, and your family--like more than half the families on the reservation--is probably poor. What's more, the calories you consume stick around, since you're not doing much to burn them off. Your school is probably too far away for you to reach it on foot. Playmates may be similarly distant. And don't even think about parks or playgrounds--multiple studies over the past several years have shown that low-income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just Genetics | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...WITH FIREARMS: Zohan: Longs to put down the guns for the scissors of a hairstylist Borat: Announces to a giddy rodeo audience that his nation of Kazakhstan support America's "war of terror" Jesus: Threatens friends of The Dude by saying he'll steal away their guns, stick them where the sun don't shine, and "pull the trigger 'til it goes click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Familiar About the Zohan? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...movie also follows a precept of animation that stretches back to Gertie the Dinosaur, Krazy Kat and Mickey Mouse, through the classic Warner Bros. cartoons and up to Disney's The Lion King, Pixar's A Bug's Lifeand of course Happy Feet: stick to animals. When stylized artfully, they have so much more wit and personality than mere human beings. Not having to attempt a duplication of reality liberates a good animator's imagination. In KFP you'll see this in the spectacular fight scenes, but also in the character sketching, in the subtlety of glances and gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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