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Sometimes the solution to an obesity-sprawl problem is a matter not just of reconfiguring a town but of rethinking its roadways. For instance, only 17% of all schoolchildren walk to school, according to research firm Belden Russonello & Stewart. "The vast majority of children live within one mile of school," says Rich Killingsworth, a professor at the University of North Carolina. "But only 28% of those children walk there." Killingsworth is director of the Active Living by Design program, which funds projects that help communities become more pedestrian friendly. Programs like Safe Routes to School find ways to make...
Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah, has described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening...
...Friday afternoon, the math lounge fills with students. Comrades catch up on the week’s events and a pair of graduate students work on originating theorems that make even the most difficult of Math 55b, Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra, problem sets look like lonely, cowering schoolchildren. “I have a lot of fun doing math,” Matthew C. Bainbridge, a third-year math grad student, boasts, boldly sporting a KISS T-shirt emblazoned with Gene Simmons’ trademark tongue...
...review of the process - even a ditching of the rules. Arch-rival Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband described the situation as "laughable" and said Australian selectors were "arrogant." "It shows a lack of respect to treat (Thorpe) like this." Swimming Australia defended the starting rule as one known to schoolchildren the world over. SA president John Devitt says the Olympic selection system may be severe but it's the fairest method available. "You've got one chance and you have to be able to perform...
...course of time, the lesser becomes the worst of all. In this pathetic situation, how can the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party claim that "India is shining" and that Indians have never had it so good? Maybe politicians and their houses and cars are shining, but not the poor schoolchildren in remote villages. Let every man and woman in India get a good education, enjoy all fundamental rights and eat three meals a day. Then perhaps we can say "India is shining." Anthony Nayagam Bangalore, India...