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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their part, doctors say families as concerned as the Cohns are unusual. Most parents have a woeful lack of knowledge about basic nutrition. Doctors tell stories about patients who feed French fries and Cheetos to their children before their first birthday, for example. What's worse is that many families with overweight or obese children aren't even aware there is a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is My Child Really Overweight? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...think it's a very important finding, and it's consistent with other research in the last 10 years on this topic," says Dishion. "What's really surprising is that we don't have more research showing this to be true. Almost everyone you tell about these findings who has worked in [residential or juvenile-justice settings] is not surprised. I think there's a tacit agreement not to look too carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Juvenile Detention Makes Teens Worse | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

Currently in Detroit, says Samuels, "I have approximately 65 to 70 bodies that are ready to be buried. Of those 65 or 70, I can tell you, are 35 or 40 where families have signed off on the bodies and they don't have the funds to bury them." It costs the state - or the county, if the state declines to help - $750 to bury an unclaimed decedent in a potter's grave in Western Wayne County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...living casually. I am committed to wearing runner-soled shoes, watching The Simpsons and making back-of-the-classroom wisecracks on Twitter. But the rampant juvenillization of national life does echo and reinforce unfortunate habits of mind. What do the naughtiest children do? They scream and cry and tell outrageous fibs, like Glenn Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boomers: Older and Maybe, Finally Wiser | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

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