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...study involved a survey of 150,000 U.S. households, and the figures it produced were staggering. In the past eight years, the number of Americans found to have Type 2 (or adult-onset) diabetes--the type commonly associated with obesity--has jumped a whopping 33%, from 4.9% of the population to 6.5%. Though the disease has traditionally been seen in grayer age groups--those 45 or older--the greatest increase appears to be occurring among 30- to 39-year-olds, who have seen a stunning 70% jump. Among racial groups, Hispanics were hit hardest of all, with a 38% increase...
Worldwide, sharks have bitten 38 people this year, including 30 in the U.S. Ten years ago, the number of U.S. attacks was just 19. Despite the increase, shark experts say sharks should be more worried about people. Overfishing is depleting the shark population approximately 40 million a year. "The real story is not shark bites man," says Burgess. "It's man bites shark...
...more. The British band Radiohead's new CD, Kid A, out Oct. 3, arrives like Mark Antony delivering Caesar's funeral oration: it comes not to praise rock but to bury it. The songs defy convention and categorization: one track, The National Anthem, begins like a full-on rock number, with a throbbing bass guitar and aggressive percussion, before the tune bursts open and jazzy horns tumble out. This is an album about atmosphere and mood, not easy hooks and catchy choruses. Listening to Kid A is like hearing one's own heart--you feel every beat intimately...
...crave order on a smaller scale, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is sending over some of its extensive collection of 20th century furniture to the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. While reproductions can be seen in the increasing number of midcentury furniture stores around the U.S., there's nothing like an original Arne Jacobsen to set design pulses racing...
...called the "Hygiene Hypothesis," and researchers invoke it to try to explain why the number of children who develop asthma has grown so dramatically over the past three decades. Bolstered by a handful of studies, the basic idea is that modern urban society is too clean for the kids' own good. A hundred years ago, children's immune systems would have faced all kinds of bacterial and viral infections. Today those immune systems don't know what to do in our supersanitized environment, so they wind up attacking pollen, dust mites and other usually innocuous substances instead. In the worst...