SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/12/moh.kids.cardiac.problems.obesity/index.html
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Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.
He couldn't hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike's brake. No crack of a bat -- just silence.
The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he's seen over and over again.
HEADLINE: People power punts pub pokies
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26339695-421,00.html
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IN a landmark Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision this morning, a rural hotel has been refused permission to install 30 gaming machines.
Romsey Hotel refused permission to install pokies due to negative social impact
Tribunal president Justice Kevin Bell said the negative social impact of pokies on the rural town of Romsey outweighed the small economic benefit to the community, The Herald Sun reported.
HEADLNE: School Reportedly Stages Murder to Teach Lesson
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574066,00.html?test=latestnews
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British students got the shock of a lifetime when they walked into their classroom and found their teacher's bloody body on the floor, The Daily Mail reported.HEADLINE: Beers with friends may help teen girls
The parents of the students — some as young as 5-years-old — were furious that it was all part of a problem-solving exercise.
The scene was set up to look like the teacher had been attacked, with fake blood splattered across the floor and police tape blocking off the "crime scene," The Daily Mail reported.
The school's principal told The Daily Mail that the scene was staged to cover key skills in the curriculum, from creative writing to science.
Investigators then appeared to ask the students to figure out who committed the crime and reportedly took the fingerprints of some children, the paper reported.
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/life/Beers+with+friends+help+teen+girls/1972965/story.html
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Sneaking an occasional beer with friends could actually be a good thing for teens -- especially girls --according to new research that upends typically negative views on teens and alcohol.
Timothy Owens, a sociology professor at Purdue University in Indiana, found that high school girls who drank once or twice with their friends in the past month were less likely to feel depressed than those who didn't.
"The realistic explanation is that teens drink for a lot of reasons, and one of them is to blow off steam, get together, have fun, joke around with their peers," Owens says.
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