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...quarter of American schoolchildren do not regularly eat fruit or vegetables or brush their teeth, according to a new national survey. The American Health Foundation, a private New York-based research organization, and Scholastic Inc., a publisher, released results of a questionnaire distributed to 3,112 primary school children at a conference sponsored by the American Cancer Society. "These statistics knock you out of your chair," commented Dr. Edward J. Sondik, acting director of the National Cancer Institute.TIME medical writer Christine Gormansays health professionals have long worried about children's health habits, especially because of the implications for later life...
...another and sharing memories about everything from the Great War to the once ubiquitous Burma Shave highway ads, seniors are connecting with the generations below them. Children of aging parents log on for advice about health care and retirement communities or just to chat. On SeniorNet, several programs link schoolchildren and seniors. The Generation to Generation forum enables students to tap personal histories of World War I and the Depression, as well as lessons on aging. Says John Horn, professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California: ``It's the equivalent of the old folks sitting around the village...
Every year on Sept. 1, on the anniversary of the 1923 earthquake that took 143,000 lives in Tokyo and Yokohama, the Japanese observe national Disaster Prevention Day. All over the archipelago, schoolchildren rehearse running through tunnels of smoke with handkerchiefs covering their faces; the military practices helicopter rescues. In countless towns and cities, fire departments roll out their earthquake-simulation machines. These room-size boxes, equipped with a table, two chairs, a bookshelf, a gas cooking stove and a kerosene heater on a wooden floor, are set on shock absorbers and shudder exactly like an earthquake, escalating in force...
Collecting blood, particularly from ancient tribes in remote areas, was not always easy; potential donors were often afraid to cooperate, or raised religious taboos. On one occasion, when Cavalli-Sforza was taking blood samples from schoolchildren in a rural region of the Central African Republic, he was confronted by an angry farmer brandishing an ax. Recalls the scientist: "I remember him saying, 'If you take the blood of the children, I'll take yours.' He was worried that we might want to do some magic with the blood...
Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders resigned last week at President Clinton's request, eight days after she remarked that schoolchildren should perhaps be taught about masturbation. The White House cited the growing list of areas in which the President and Elders disagree -- from possible legalization of drugs to distribution of condoms in schools -- as the reason for the President's action...