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Couch Potato Kids By Julie Mosher With so much emphasis on looks in today's society (mainly in bulimic Hollywood), there is a growing problem we all know as obesity. Not only is this a serious problem in adults, but it is now a huge problem in our children as well. Why has this become such an out-of-control crisis when in the last 30 years it was seen very rarely, if at all? There are many factors that are in play here to answer that question. Perhaps the most important question to answer is, to whom does the responsibility fall for...

A revolution has just been launched in Georgia. Before it's over, parents will have control of their children's education. The genie is out. Across Georgia, 70,000 children in poorer neighborhoods attend schools that U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has identified as nonperforming. Under President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, those children have the option of transferring to other public schools. So far, fewer than 500 metro Atlanta parents have switched their children. The number would have been far greater, but the act was signed in January and it was summer before the nonperforming schools were officially designated. Local...