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...situation among children is particularly bleak. American youth has got fatter than it was in the '60s, according to HHS tests. Young people spend an average of 13 hours a week in sports or other exercise. They spend three to four times that watching TV and playing video games. Schoolchildren's scores are now declining for strength, power, speed, agility and cardiovascular fitness. The Amateur Athletic Union reports that 36% of youngsters meet its standards for push-ups, high jumps, long jumps, endurance runs and sprints. Just a few years ago, the number...
Although primarily a fund raiser, the well-publicized dinner was also the film capital's way of confronting a growing panic. Though health authorities issue new assurances almost daily that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact with its victims, Hollywood performers and directors have joined dentists, parents of schoolchildren and many other Americans in developing their own set of phobias about the disease. The film community, for example, is widely assumed to include at least its share of homosexual men. Male homosexuals constitute the largest single group of AIDS victims. For Hollywood's female stars, the most pressing career...
...more wide-ranging dilemma faces political leaders and parents of schoolchildren over whether youngsters with AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does...
...mentality was most evident last week in other quarters, among the mothers of New York schoolchildren, for example. A plague mentality results from ignorance and fear, but not in the way that is usually meant. When medicine is ignorant about a lethal disease, then the only intelligent approach, by mothers or anyone else, is to be fearful and intensely cautious. But, like a plague itself, a plague mentality seems an anachronism in the elaborately doctored postindustrial U.S. The discussion in recent years has gone in the other direction: Has medicine got so good that it is keeping people alive past...
From there, the students journeyed to the recently-restored Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center for a glance at posters by schoolchildren supporting peace efforts with the Soviet Union. Duehay followed with a quick explanation about the city's unique nuclear disarmament commission, which advocates a peace curriculum in city schools...