Word: yancey
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...Austin and found that even in dense communities, parents often refused to allow kids to walk to school, fearing they would become victims of crime or traffic accidents. "In low-income neighborhoods, the walkability didn't matter," says Zhu. "Safety is the No. 1 factor influencing them." Antronette Yancey, a professor at UCLA's School of Public Health, sees the same phenomenon in her city. "Parents say they'd rather have a fat kid than a dead kid," she says...
Other cultural factors, harder to define, could influence the geography of obesity as well. Yancey, an African-American woman, points out that being overweight isn't looked down on as much in the black community as it is in the white community and that extremely high levels of adult obesity among African Americans--31.2% of black men and 51.6% of black women are classified as obese--may have shifted social norms. (Race isn't an absolute determinant, though--largely African-American Mississippi and overwhelmingly white West Virginia both have high obesity levels.) The same could be true among Hispanics, especially...
...Robert Yancey, a program director at a New York City drug clinic called Turning Point, blames the dangerously lax attitude toward cocaine in the 1970s for fueling the drug's popularity - and fostering the crack epidemic of the 1980s. One law enforcement official in Philadelphia says a contemporary analogy is the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere...
...knew [Kingpin] would be risky and different and potentially controversial," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. "All of those things appeal to us." Risky, yes--enough so that NBC ordered only six episodes. Controversial, maybe. But different? Kingpin follows Miguel Cadena (Yancey Arias), a Mob boss who prefers to think of himself as a captain-of-industry type, who gets both support and agita from a headstrong wife and who wants to shield his son from his bloody business. If you infringed this closely on one of Tony Soprano's construction scams, your head would end up in a bowling...
...downtown Greensboro it constructed the Children's Center. Serving as a shelter for abused youngsters, it is a colorful, even humorous place with tilted windows, a welcoming canopy, children's handprints in the concrete, and a tractor tire swing. And on a nearby farm in Sawyerville, it built Yancey Chapel. The church rests on a ridge in the woods and is made from discarded tires and old timber as well as slate dredged from a creek. All the materials are humble, yet Yancey is anything but pedestrian. With a font whose water trickles through the sanctuary, clerestory openings...