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During the 20 years Dr. Melinda Sothern has been working with obese children, the Louisiana-based exercise physiologist and author of Trim Kids has seen only about a dozen removed from their homes. But in recent years, she's noticed a real change in attitude. "I've seen less and less willingness on the professional side to understand how hard it is on the parents' side, especially from younger professionals," she says. "[Child protection] laws have changed, so a lot of times they worry that if they don't report parents, they'll get in trouble." (See a special report...
...return to his early days, before he became a conventional leading man in Jerry Bruckheimer films. In his young prime Cage was a weird, tortured actor with highly eccentric impulses; you never knew if he'd punch a wall or eat the flowers. Here he trashes half of lower Louisiana and rips the breathing tube out of an old lady's nose. Both narcotized and energized by his drug regimen, he confronts everybody with the intense stare of a man trying desperately to stay awake, like Robert Mitchum at the end of a long night and too many tokes...
...work in progress," hedged Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu...
...accept them as payment (Costco announced this year it will take food stamps at some New York City stores on a temporary basis). As an experiment, CNN reporter Sean Callebs spent the month of February relying on food stamps. Spending $176 - the maximum amount awarded by the state of Louisiana, where he lives - Callebs found that he could buy enough food, but only if he avoided snacks and most name-brand items. "I can tell you my pants are much looser," he said after the month was over...
...treatment of and expectations from athletes may also have changed. Last year’s Louisiana State University starting quarterback, Andrew Hatch, will be returning to Harvard. I remember sitting in the newly opened Lamont Library and noticing with surprise someone from my hometown whom I had not previously considered likely to be admitted. He was approached by an assistant football coach and asked why he was not coming to practice. He stated simply that he was too busy doing schoolwork...