The West Side Y Hosts Fit for All 5K to Prevent Childhood Obesity

On Saturday, October 1, 2011, the sound of thousands of sneakers pounding the pavement will be heard along the Upper West Side as hundreds of runners gather together to take aim at the epidemic that threatens to shorten the lifespan of today’s kids – childhood obesity....

Immigration and Synthesis

The problems that the children of hippies experienced have been blamed on the supposed bad parenting of them by the hippies. This is wrong. The root of the problem is that the parents lived by one set of values while living in a society that ran by another. The exact same...

Barack Obama - Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" This article was originally published in July 2008 in globalpolitician.comBarack Obama appears to be a narcissist.  Granted, only a qualified mental health diagnostician can determine whether someone...

Carly Simon and Tavis Smiley: Solutions to Stuttering

There have been many famous people who have stuttered in childhood:  James Earl Jones, Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Joe Biden and Marilyn Monroe.  Recently, Carly Simon shared a unique she used to...

Forrest Gump Has Nothing On Cameron Mathison: He's a Superstar!

A rare and difficult condition called Perthes Disease had soap opera actor and a veteran of "Dancing with the Stars," Cameron Mathison, in leg braces as a child. Cameron's own mother, Loretta Mathison, thought he...

Child leukaemia 'genes' revealed

" Genetic flaws that increase the risk of the most common form of childhood leukaemia have been uncovered by British scientists. The three variants each raise the risk by between 30% and 60%, said the Institute of Cancer Research team. But they stressed that other things,...

Did Terri-Lynne McClintic's childhood aid in Tori's murder?

Terri-Lynne McClintic, one of the suspects in the Tori Stafford murder case, along with ther boyfriend Michael Thomas Rafferty, is only 18 years old, but according to her paternal grandmother, it could be because...

Schools Fuming over "Smoking Smarties"

Apparently unaware of the existence of mass media, school officials are up in arms over the resurgent microtrend of "smoking smarties", in which schoolchildren forcibly exhale powdered candy. The idea here is that...

2009 Immunization Schedules Released by US CDC

Updates have been made to the 2009 Immunization Schedules for children and adolescents, which were jointly released by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American...

Flashback: "It's the Most Wonderful Time ....

.... of the year!” Before Staples appropriated part of that song for its back to school sales campaign, featuring parents gleefully gliding through the aisles shopping, with children glumly dragging their...

Malaria vaccine may be available in 2012

Nearly One million people are  killed  every year by malaria.Although half of the world's population lives in areas where malaria is rampent, and these are worlds poorest countries.The launch of  the vaccine of...

Diabetes in Indian children: Emerging epidemic

With more than  35 million diabetics patient, India is sitting on a volcanic diabetes epidemic, the scale of which far surpasses anything previously witnessed.  With huge urban  migration and  socio-economic transition over the last decade, people have...

Babar is Alive and Well in New York, at the Morgan Library and Museum that is!

In our turbulent times, the slow going elephant is a reassuring presence. Babar is in New York, not for one of his family outings with Celeste and their children but as the star of Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors an exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum. ...

call me sugar or sweetie, it's all the same

"tired of all of the criticism that is brought down on them, the corn refiners association (cra) has gone on the offensive and have started an ad campaign to debunk the myths about high fructose corn syrup. seems that some of the bad press that the substance received,...

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

Gov. Sarah Palin proves to be good to her friends and unforgiving to her enemies."Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes Heath Family, via Associated Press The Wasilla City Council, with Sarah Palin, the future governor and vice-presidential nominee, at the...

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