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ELIZABETH, N.J. Over the summer, as Americans fired up their grills, the Topps Meat factory here scrambled to produce thousands of frozen hamburger patties for «topics.nytimes.com» and other customers, putting intense pressure on workers.
As output rose, federal regulators said in interviews, the company was neglecting critical safeguards meant to protect consumers. Three big […]
SAN FRANCISCO Nice work if you can get it. That’s the consensus of fairly affluent, well-educated fathers who stay home full time with their children, according to a pioneering study released over the weekend.
About 159,000 men in the USA are full-time fathers, more than triple the number a decade ago, Census data show. […]
Accelerometers and pedometers: methodology and clinical application.
Assessment of nutritional status and analytical methods Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. 10(5):597-603, September 2007.
Corder, Kirsten; Brage, Soren; Ekelund, Ulf
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Purpose of review: The relationship between physical activity and health varies considerably, partly due to the difficulty of assessing physical activity accurately. This review examines […]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA: The shuttle Endeavour blazed a roaring trail into orbit as a spectacular night launch kicked off 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
The shuttle was launched at the conclusion of a countdown that seemed touched by good fortune: nearly perfect weather and none of the technical problems that can cause […]
When I was growing up, the word willpower was used a lot. If only one was strong enough to resist sweets, according to logic of the time, one could stay thin.
Yet today, based on a series of scientific discoveries, the importance of willpower in promoting weight loss is becoming an obsolete notion. Is it […]
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