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Are Ratings Woes Making NASCAR Too Reckless?
This week Eddie Gossage, a legendary NASCAR promoter who runs the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, was discussing two hot-button sports issues with a friend.
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2010-03-13
Obesity: How Intestinal Bacteria May Cause Weight Gain
If you're fighting the battle of the bulge, most of your attention - and frustration - is probably aimed at your midsection. It makes sense, since that's where the extra pounds tend to gravitate, especially with the creep of middle age, piling on to form that dreaded spare tire.
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2010-03-05
Homeschooling: German Family Gets Political Asylum in U.S.
Update Appended: March 1, 2010
Nations:U.S. Sweden Spain Brazil Netherlands Source:(Time)
2010-03-04
How the Initiative Culture Broke California
Outside a Target store in Orange County, Elbie Birch hawks his wares: ballot propositions. "Excuse me gentlemen, are you registered voters?" Birch, a tall burly man with a shaved head, goatee and winning smile, is a professional initiative signature gatherer. In the past year, he has worked on gerrymandering in Florida, a casino issue in Ohio and affordable housing in Massachusetts before coming to California - the undisputed capital of direct democracy - where he is hustling a stack of nine ballot initiatives. Birch gets 50 cents to $1 for every signature he gathers.
Nations:U.S. People:Arnold Schwarzenegger Source:(Time)
2010-02-26
America's Worst Schools Get A $4 Billion Fix
"Ba-Boom!" Leroy Hayes describes sitting in his seventh-grade English class at Philadelphia's Shoemaker Middle School when he heard the explosion. It was startling but not necessarily surprising, he says. Crazy stuff happened all the time at Shoemaker. Once, he recalls, a student urinated into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident. "People were laughing and screaming and saying, 'Do another one, do another!' It was out of hand. But," he adds, in a succinct assessment of the crisis in U.S. public education today, "it's not like we were learning anything in class anyway."
Nations:U.S. People:George W. Bush Source:(Time)
2010-02-15
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