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...obese adolescent is much more likely to become an obese adult than is an overweight one-year-old. But even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age five, overweight five-year-olds maybe have a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults compared to relatively thin five-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Obese Kids Become Obese Adults? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Polzer said Elisabeth looked very pale and thin and "much older than she actually is." Kerstin is described as being in stable but serious condition, while Elisabeth and the other two children who lived with her are under the care and observation of psychologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellar Incest Case Shocks Austria | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...don’t you take off that dress?”He looked down at her with his penetrating green gaze. Without pausing to think, Felicity raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face. He didn’t move. Her diamond ring had left a thin scratch across his cheekbone. With complete control, The Stable Boy grabbed her wrists and pushed her against the wall, her arms above her head.Her chest strained against the wet, almost transparent fabric of her dress. “Someone will see,” she gasped...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...those clinging on to the process, Kony's next chance to come out of the bush is on May 10, when Ugandan elders will return to Southern Sudan to supposedly discuss questions of justice. No one has any idea if he will turn up, and patience, too, is wearing thin, especially among those in the international community, which has paid over $10 million for the process. They complain that for some of the negotiators the process has become more about money and political positioning than resolving the problems of northern Uganda, long marginalized and battered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda's Unfinished Peace | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...rich medium where they divide and multiply, and are then attached to a scaffolding structure and put in a bioreactor to grow. In order to achieve the texture of natural muscle, the cells must be physically stretched and flexed, or exercised, regularly. After several weeks, voila, you have a thin layer of muscle tissue that can be harvested and processed into ground beef, chicken or pork, depending on the origin of the cells. But don't expect to see big, juicy in vitro steaks anytime soon; the technology has not yet been able to synthesize blood vessels or grow large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Test-Tube Hamburger | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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