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...wonder that, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 26% of 2-to-5-year-olds are at risk of becoming overweight, and 14% are already overweight--more than twice the incidence in the mid-'70s and up 35% in the past four years alone. Those numbers could rise as much as 30% overnight if the U.S. adopts the new growth-chart guidelines issued last month by the World Health Organization. "I'm seeing younger and younger kids overweight--as young as 10 months old," says Jan Hangen, a clinical nutrition specialist at Children...
...Reyes appears to be but one sunny page in Spain's storybook economic transformation over the last generation. What was once a diffidently autarchic appendage to the Continent has become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year by a full percentage point. Spanish companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial...
...greatly from European Union subsidies, which are bound to disappear in coming years as needier recipients in the east move to the front of the line. And then there's inflation, which remains the Achilles' heel of the Spanish economy, currently running at an annual rate of 4.1%, almost twice the euro-zone average. "Since Spain entered the euro zone, its high inflation rate has been consistently weakening its competitiveness," says the o.e.c.d.'s Giorno. Largely as a result, Spain's net foreign balance has dived over recent years. There's no easy solution in sight. Higher interest rates would...
TIME's table comparing the prices for medical procedures in the U.S. and Asian countries showed that U.S. hospitals charge uninsured patients twice what they bill an insurance company for the identical procedure on an insured patient. That lamentable and unethical practice should be the shame of hospital administrators everywhere. In effect, they put the screws to those who can least afford...
...your face,'" recalls Frankel. "And he said, 'I can do that.' And Meryl said, 'I can do that! I've done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy, but has won only twice. Which makes it more notable that during shooting she essentially worked as an extra for three days, sitting in the background as the action focused on the assistants outside her office. She was probably on her BlackBerry, e-mailing one of her four children. "Gwyneth Paltrow...