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Gary A. Orfield and Dean K. Whitla, both professors at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, announced Wednesday the results of what they say is one of the first studies to directly link diversity to educational outcomes...
...KIND This week People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launches a campaign to increase public awareness of animal cruelty and its link to other violent behavior in youngsters. The group is supplying teaching kits and videos to more than 100,000 educators as well as 15,000 pediatric and obstetric offices to help adults teach kids the importance of being kind to their pets and other animals. The material shows parents, teachers and doctors how to spot and deal quickly with the troubling early signs of cruelty to animals...
...warming, the scientific community in general is not quite ready to sign on to that theory. "We are experiencing some regional heat waves, which may or may not average out over the long term," says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. TIME science correspondent Dick Thompson concurs. "You can?t link a specific event ? this heat wave ? to climate change," he says. And although many experts believe the Earth is heating up, they cannot agree whether it is caused by human activity or the natural cycles that through the centuries have brought both ice ages and parched droughts...
...tomatoes and prostate cancer. Studies have shown that men who eat cooked tomatoes in various forms have a lower incidence of malignancy. The reason may be lycopene, another of the carotenoids, which is released when tomatoes are heated--but no one knows for sure, and even the tomato-prostate link isn't absolutely firm...
Another substance found in fruits and vegetables, though, does seem to have a protective effect against one form of malignancy: dietary fiber clearly reduces the risk of colon cancer. That link is sufficiently well established that the National Cancer Institute recommends that Americans increase their average daily fiber intake...