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Children can develop weight problems at any age, but there are periods when kids are especially vulnerable. One, it's now clear, is the transition from teen years to young adulthood. Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health presented last week revealed that in the five years from 1996 to 2001, about 2 million young Americans joined the ranks of the clinically obese. --By David Bjerklie
...Columbia School of Public Health . . . and global partners like PharmAccess in the Netherlands . . . over 80 people, working for nothing or in one case nearly nothing. They started meeting with [pharmaceutical companies], working on these systems, . . . increasing their productivity. The other thing we did was to work with governments to develop comprehensive plans for treatment and care. And we made a commitment to raise the funds and do the training necessary. And once a government officially approved that approach, we said we'd help them get the medicine. Which is what...
...their first year. College is a time of great freedom and little structure; less structure, in fact, than most of us have had in a decade or will have in the decades to come. Freshman year is a transition into this new atmosphere, and the essential time to develop effective habits of study and relaxation. Freshmen, having neither seven classes to attend during the day nor parents at night, are now learning how to husband time as their most precious resource...
...proposal will affect Harvard’s ability to develop its property along the Charles River, including a site on Memorial Drive that is currently home to Mahoney’s Garden Center and two sites near Mather House...
...director of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness at the KSG, Howitt penned a Boston Globe op-ed on Sept. 17, 2001 charging that the nation must develop an effective emergency preparedness system in order to combat future terror attacks...