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Children sweating it out on stationary bikes and hip abductors may seem counterintuitive, even unsafe, to earlier generations brought up on neighborhood kickball games. Yet in recent years, pediatricians have dismissed the old idea that weight training could stunt growth by harming areas within young bones that are still developing. Indeed, in 2001 the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a paper outlining the benefits of such activity when performed properly (see box). And so with childhood obesity at all-time highs, rising parent concerns about letting their kids play unattended and a growing desire by athletic teenagers to train...
...subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the car"?to remove the carriage's master key and flee. There was no discussion of attending to the passengers. The conductor did as he was told, which...
...families, claiming the hasty cleanup is part of a broader attempt to cover up fatally flawed safety procedures, won an injunction to stop official tampering with the site and are demanding that the mayor of Taegu resign. So far police have arrested seven people, including the alleged arsonist, the train conductor and five other subway staff. The Korean government has also set up a special task force to probe the disaster, pledging to "win the trust" of victims' families...
Barrett added that AIDS creates high rates of absenteeism among employees, who must leave work to care for infected family members and attend funerals. Many companies have to train three or four employees just to keep...
...most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly brawl (Galileo and the Church) or a synthesis that is an intellectual train wreck (creationism and “intelligent design theory”) usually result...