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...honest mistake, not a deliberate deception." J. COFER BLACK, U.S. State Department counterterrorism chief, after the Bush Administration revised its tally of last year's terrorist acts upward to show a 5% increase rather than a 4% decrease from...
...Shrek candies. She pops off the Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains. "And it sticks to your hands." Popping on her reading glasses, Nestle, who chairs the department of nutrition, food studies and public...
...easy to tell yourself that your child is going through a chubby phase. But your pediatrician's growth and body mass index charts don't lie. "You should begin to be concerned if you see rapid, abnormal upward weight divergence," says psychotherapist Ellyn Satter, author of Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. If, over two years, you see a child's weight jump, say, from the 25th to the 75th percentile of the average weight for his age while his height stays at the 50th percentile, then there's cause for concern...
...campaigning for Shiite popular support by attacking the Americans - the U.S. was late in recognizing that far from isolating him, American military action against Sadr was actually boosting his popularity. Current opinion surveys in Iraq find Sadr ranking second among Iraqi politicians in popular support with upward of 30 percent...
Those findings could be significant. The CDC estimates that in the U.S., secondhand smoke causes 35,000 deaths a year from heart disease--a figure some experts believe will have to be revised upward, since 60% of Americans, smokers and nonsmokers, show biological effects of tobacco-smoke exposure. Shepard did offer some reassurance for city dwellers who have to pass through nicotine clouds every time they enter and leave an office building. Exposure for a few seconds probably doesn't do much harm, he says, because the toxins in cigarette smoke are quickly diluted in outside air. --With reporting...