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...learn from Japan. One is its commitment to energy-efficient public transport. Anyone who sniffs at Obama's plan for high-speed railways should have joined me on the glide back to Tokyo. But the main lesson Japan can offer the U.S. today has nothing to do with rapid progress. It concerns the perils of inaction. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
Barking and Dagenham - the two neighborhoods elect separate members of Parliament but make up a single London borough council - have witnessed rapid demographic change since the last national census, in 2001. At the time, 80% of locals identified themselves as "white - British." There's been a big influx of nonwhite families since then, with many blacks and Asians - British-born as well as new immigrants - looking for cheap housing. "There's a sense of competition for finite resources," says Jon Cruddas, Dagenham's MP and a Labour Party member. "These are generic forces, but they collide in an intense form...
What students learn in college does not suddenly cease to be important upon graduation. Those who question the necessity of a field like ethnic studies need only look at the rapid pace of economic globalization and the constant movement of groups of people within the U.S. and around the world to see that the study of ethnicity, as well as interracial and intercultural interaction, is more pertinent than ever...
...There is increasing evidence that rapid changes in weight during infancy increase children’s risk of later obesity,” explained lead author Elsie M. Taveras, a professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Pediatrics at HMS and co-director of the One Step Ahead clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston, in a HMS press release. “The mounting evidence suggests that infancy may be a critical period during which to prevent childhood obesity and its related consequences...
...It’s being thought about,” she says. “There’s definitely a recognition by the College that [the rapid loss of medical insurance does not create] an ideal circumstance...