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    May 21, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says

    More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say.
    More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...

    Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Body Mass Index, Obesity, Science and Technology, Elementary Schools

    2. May 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

    Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said.
    Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

    Tags: Game Shows, Psychologists, Religion and Belief, Internists, The Washington Post

    3. May 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85

    Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85.
    Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...

    Tags: Psychologists, Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Science and Technology, Psychology

    4. May 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Grocery shopping on an empty stomach leads to dieting disaster

    Attention dieters: If you want to maximize your chances of success, don’t go to the grocery store on an empty stomach.
    Attention dieters: If you want to maximize your chances of success, don’t go to the grocery store on an empty stomach. So says a new JAMA Internal Medicine study from two members of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, where researchers...

    Tags: Services and Shopping, Groceries, Internists, Science and Technology, Internal Medicine

    5. May 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Debate over amnesty looms over efforts to reform immigration laws

    In 1986, lawmakers decided the problem of illegal immigration had to be dealt with. More than 3 million people were living in the United States after crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas.
    In 1986, lawmakers decided the problem of illegal immigration had to be dealt with. More than 3 million people were living in the United States after crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas. A new law signed by President Ronald Reagan...

    Tags: Migration, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Department of Labor, Unemployment Benefits, Labor Markets

    6. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Proposed soda ban likely to backfire, study finds

    After New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, comedian Jon Stewart complained that the proposal "combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they expect."
    After New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, comedian Jon Stewart complained that the proposal "combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they...

    Tags: Health and Safety at School, The Daily Show (tv program), Michael Bloomberg, Science and Technology, Consumers

    7. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. More proof that soda bans would fizzle

    Soda bans seem like a good idea in theory. Soda has no nutritional value whatsoever. Worse, it’s a sugar bomb. Given the mounting obesity problem in this country, some might think soda bans are an admiral effort to curb our collective waistline, an initiative absolutely worth trying.
    Soda bans seem like a good idea in theory. Soda has no nutritional value whatsoever. Worse, it’s a sugar bomb. Given the mounting obesity problem in this country, some might think soda bans are an admiral effort to curb our collective waistline,...

    Tags: Obesity, Michael Bloomberg, Weight, Medical Procedures and Tests, American Heart Association

    8. Apr 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. L.A. Philharmonic's young composers program fine-tunes talent

    It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a piece of music.
    It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a...

    Tags: The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning, Students, Music Theater, Orange County High School of the Arts

    9. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Is a Facebook 'like' too much information?

    Go ahead, click the "like" icon on the "Wicked, the Musical" page on Facebook. You may be telling more people than you intended that you're gay.
    Go ahead, click the "like" icon on the "Wicked, the Musical" page on Facebook. You may be telling more people than you intended that you're gay. Click it for Hello Kitty. You may be telling someone you have an "open" personality but aren't as...

    Tags: Social Sciences, Howard Dean, Minority Groups, Lifestyle and Leisure, Music

    10. Feb 21, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. PASSINGS: Robert C. Richardson, Richard Briers, Shadow Morton, Bill Eadington

    <strong>Robert C. Richardson</strong>
    Robert C. Richardson Won Nobel Prize for physics in 1996 Robert C. Richardson, 75, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, died Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y., from complications of a heart attack,...

    Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, The Good Life (movie), Entertainment Events, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning

    11. Jan 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. PASSINGS: Jozef Glemp, Steven Muller

    <strong> Jozef Glemp</strong>
    Jozef Glemp Polish cardinal Cardinal Jozef Glemp, 83, the head of Poland's influential Roman Catholic church from 1981 to 2004 — a time when it played a historic role in the fight against communism — died Wednesday in Warsaw. Jozef Kloch,...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Science and Technology, University of Oxford, Hospitals and Clinics

    12. Feb 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Art Review: Jessica Rath at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

    Jessica Rath&rsquo;s project &ldquo;Take Me to the Apple Breeder&rdquo; at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, begins with a fundamentally captivating subject: the metaphor-rich science of apple cultivation.
    Jessica Rath’s project “Take Me to the Apple Breeder” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, begins with a fundamentally captivating subject: the metaphor-rich science of apple cultivation. After coming across a mention in a book...

    Tags: Apples, Museums, Arts, Genetics, Arts and Culture

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