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...revolutionary finding, but it represents some new thinking among researchers about how to tackle the burgeoning obesity epidemic, particularly among children. In the same journal, the first national survey of childhood obesity to include American-Indian and Asian ethnic groups found that 18% of 4-year-olds in the U.S. are obese, or in the 95th percentile of body-mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height. That percentage is almost doubled among American-Indian children, 31% of whom are obese...
...nothing new and has always been somewhat controversial. Traditionally, PGD has been used to screen for and subsequently deal with diseases and disorders like Tay-Sachs disease and Down syndrome. Thus far, the use of PGD has even gone so far as non-medical gender selection; in a recent survey, 42 percent of 137 surveyed IVF-PGD clinics reported using the practice. But the act of changing how a child looks based on arbitrary desires represents a new quandary altogether...
...succeed, Chicago officials must also prove there is broad public support for hosting the Olympics. According to a recent survey commissioned by Chicago 2016, some 77% OF Chicagoans expressed such support. But there is still widespread skepticism and disapproval. There have already been significant anti-Olympics protests, one of which included thousands of the city's roughly 13,000-member police force, who are seeking a pay raise. Meanwhile, critics question the suitability of the moderately-sized Washington Park for an Olympic Stadium - and argue that despite officials' pledges to downsize the stadium after the Games, the park's landscape...
...economy has started growing again. It's also misleading, in that it excludes from its calculations people who would really like to have a job but have given up actively looking. As a result, economic forecasters tend to look more closely at payroll data, which come from a survey of 150,000 businesses and government agencies. (The unemployment rate is derived from a Census Bureau survey of 50,000 households...
...payroll number is a "coincident indicator": it tells what's happening now, or at least what was happening in the very recent past. It sometimes misses incipient upturns, because new jobs are created by small businesses, which aren't counted in the payroll survey. But there are no signs that anything like that might be happening now. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...