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...among the usual suspects rounded up by Beijing authorities was Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon who blew the whistle on the government's cover-up of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Earlier this spring, Jiang penned a letter to China's leaders, urging them to reconsider their unrepentant stance on the massacre and describing his own haunting memories of the mangled bodies brought to his hospital that night. The disappearance last Wednesday of Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, appears to be the strongest reaction yet to his criticisms of the government, and underscores Beijing's continued determination to discourage...
...takes a terrible toll on the human body, significantly increasing the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, infertility, gall-bladder disease, osteoarthritis and many forms of cancer. The total medical tab for illnesses related to obesity is $117 billion a year--and climbing--according to the Surgeon General, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported in March that poor diet and physical inactivity could soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. And again, Americans recognize the problem. In the TIME/ABC poll they rated obesity alongside heart disease, cancer, AIDS...
They are fully aware of how difficult it will be to engineer this kind of change. Nestle, who served in the Reagan Administration as senior nutritional-policy adviser and editor of the first--and only--Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, knows that health messages are politically dicey when they concern the mighty food industry. Her 2002 book, Food Politics (University of California Press; 469 pages), documents how those messages get distorted. Still, that doesn't stop her and her fellow warriors from campaigning for action...
...most controversial ideas from the obesity warriors call for a greater role for the Federal Government. Ideally, they are looking for action on the order of the 1964 Surgeon General's report on tobacco, which kicked off a national effort to reduce smoking. Obesity, they point out, is on the verge of supplanting smoking as the nation's No. 1 preventable cause of disease and death. Many of their suggestions for federal action come directly from the antismoking playbook...
...documentarian Don North. He was in Iraq helping rebuild its TV service when he heard of the men and says he used $100,000 of his son's college funds to find and film them. North, with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven prosthetic hands equipped with state...