viernes, 24 de junio de 2011

Games With No Screens and Food That’s Not Fast

By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI

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Campers cool off after playing at Hoover Community School in Redwood City, as part of Children's Power Play.

When summer arrives and the structure of school days ends, many children fall into bad habits, but Children’s Power Play!, a statewide initiative, aims to correct that.

City Rejects Unions’ Offer to Help Close Budget Gap

By FERNANDA SANTOS and JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ

The leader of a group of municipal unions accused city officials of shutting the door on negotiations over a financial rescue package that could avert thousands of teacher layoffs..

Representative John Kline, center, with fellow Republicans.

Republican Challenges Administration on Plans to Override Education Law

By SAM DILLON

Representative John Kline of Minnesota said he would use a House rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law to rein in Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s influence.

For SUNY and CUNY, Top Lawmakers Support Plan to Raise Tuition $300 a Year

By WINNIE HU

More than 350,000 students would be affected by the proposed legislation, which is intended to make tuition increases more predictable.

Free, but Unemployed, in Tunisia

By ANGELA GIUFFRIDA

The lack of jobs for university graduates — a root cause of the revolution in Tunisia — remains to be addressed as the country steps slowly toward democracy.

Learning Empathy by Looking Beyond Disabilities

By WINNIE HU

A new program aims to promote tolerance among students at Ridgewood High School by connecting them with disabled peers.

Michele Bachmann and her daughters - from left, Caroline, Elisa, and Sophia - at home in 2004. Mrs. Bachmann said she worked until Caroline, the second-youngest of five, was born.

Roots of Bachmann’s Ambition Began at Home

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Representative Michele Bachmann’s political awakening began with her encounters with the school system when she was a foster mother.

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In Data, ‘A’ Schools Leave Many Not Ready for CUNY

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS and ROBERT GEBELOFF

The new figures also showed a clear link between college remediation and how well students performed before high school.

Opponents and supporters of the suit against the Department of Education clashed outside court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Both Sides Square Off at Hearing on Charter School Suit

By FERNANDA SANTOS

Plaintiffs and opponents clashed outside a hearing on a lawsuit by the teachers’ union against the city’s Education Department over a proposal to close schools.

Plan Aims to Revitalize Detroit Schools

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Michigan officials announced a plan Monday to overhaul Detroit’s struggling schools by moving the worst ones into a new system in the fall of 2012.

ON EDUCATION

Members of the Army Junior R.O.T.C. program at Francis Lewis High School in an annual pass-in-review ceremony last month.

At High School in Queens, R.O.T.C.’s Enduring Influence

By MICHAEL WINERIP

The program at Francis Lewis High School, which has grown every year since its inception, is the largest of the 1,725 high school chapters in the country.

Wess Young, 94, fled with his mother and sister as armed white men rampaged through his neighborhood in 1921.

As Survivors Dwindle, Tulsa Confronts Past

By A.G. SULZBERGER

Tulsa’s race riot of 1921 has been mentioned rarely in public or private. Now, advocates are pressing for recognition.

No prom or yearbook, but a diploma, of sorts.

After Home Schooling, Pomp and Traditional Circumstances

By TAMAR LEWIN

A nontraditional movement goes mainstream, embracing many of the trappings of the graduation season.

U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity

By MICHAEL HOINSKI

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment at the McDonald Observatory, part of the University of Texas, could have a bearing on finally formulating why gravity exists.

Difficult to Place, Students May Be Relocated Again

By TREY BUNDY

The San Francisco Unified School District plans to end its partnership with the Erikson School, which teaches children with severe behavioral problems.

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On This Day: June 24

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On June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.

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On June 24, 1895, Jack Dempsey, the American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, was born. Following his death on May 31, 1983, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1314	The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1497	The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509	Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1793	The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1908	Former President Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
1940	France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1974	The Beach Boys' greatest hits album "Endless Summer" was released.
1998	AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2004	Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2006	Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
2009	After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
2010	John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. (Isner won the fifth set 70-68.)

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Rock musician Jeff Beck turns 67 years old today.

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Actress Minka Kelly ("Friday Night Lights") turns 31 years old today.

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1919	Al Molinaro, Actor ("Happy Days"), turns 92
1923	Jack Carter, Comedian, turns 88
1942	Michele Lee, Actress ("Knot's Landing"), turns 69
1943	Georg Stanford Brown, Actor, director ("The Rookies"), turns 68
1944	Arthur Brown, Rock singer, turns 67
1945	George Pataki, Former governor of New York, turns 66
1947	Mick Fleetwood, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 64
1960	Juli Inkster, Golfer, turns 51
1961	Curt Smith, Rock singer, musician (Tears for Fears), turns 50
1967	Sherry Stringfield, Actress ("ER"), turns 44
1979	Mindy Kaling, Actress, producer ("The Office"), turns 32
1986	Solange Knowles, R&B singer, turns 25

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Jack Dempsey6/24/1895 - 5/31/1983American world heavyweight boxing champion.Go to obituary »

86	Theodore Beza 6/24/1519 - 10/13/1605 French author, translator, educator and theologian
56	Robert Dudley Leicester 6/24/1532 - 9/4/1588 English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
49	Saint John of the Cross 6/24/1542 - 12/14/1591 Spanish mystic and poet
66	John Hughes 6/24/1797 - 1/3/1864 Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York
73	Henry Ward Beecher 6/24/1813 - 3/8/1887 American Congregational minister
63	Gustavus Swift 6/24/1839 - 3/29/1903 American business leader; founded Swift & Co.
81	Victor Francis Hess 6/24/1883 - 12/17/1964 Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936)
81	Irving Kaufman 6/24/1910 - 2/1/1992 American judge; presided over the Rosenberg case
75	Norman Cousins 6/24/1915 - 11/30/1990 American essayist and editor of The Saturday Review
69	John Ciardi 6/24/1916 - 3/30/1986 American poet, critic and translator

Resident doctors still work too long: report

(Reuters) - First-year residents may soon get a reprieve from grueling hospital shifts that last more than 24 hours, but that is not enough to prevent an alarming number of medical errors, according to a report released on Friday.

Starting July 1, new rules will require first-year residents to work shifts no longer than 16 straight hours. But that will not spare more experienced residents from working as long as 28 hours at a stretch.

A group of 26 doctors and patient safety experts are calling for limiting all resident physician work to shifts of 12 to 16 hours. Their report was published on Friday in the journal Nature & Science of Sleep journal.

"What started as a good system has evolved into a system where the residents are extremely sleep deprived, caring for some of the sickest patients in the country, and that's a set-up for disaster," Dr. Christopher Landrigan, one of the report's authors, said in an interview.

The report is the product of a conference held last year at Harvard Medical School. It also recommends that residents should be subject to increased supervision by attending physicians and hand off routine work like blood draws or paperwork to other staff.

The group cited U.S. government statistics that show as many as 180,000 patients each year die due to harm resulting from their medical care.

The new resident work rules are based on recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, which estimated implementation would cost $1.7 billion, mostly to hire additional hospital staff. Landrigan said the costs would be offset by reducing medical errors.

"Few people enter a hospital expecting that their care and safety are in the hands of someone who has been working a double-shift or more with no sleep," said Dr. Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the report.

"If they knew, and had a choice, the overwhelming majority would demand another doctor or leave," he said in a statement.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the body that oversees residency training, issued the new rules for first-years in September 2010. It has said it was committed to examining resident hours "with a goal of making them better."

Landrigan said he does not expect the report to change the rules for other residents anytime soon, because of tradition and costs.

(Reporting by Andrew Seaman; Editing by Michele Gershberg)

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Descubren enzima crucial para evitar la hipertrofia cardiaca

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Los autores del hallazgo creen que la enzima lo hace modificando una proteína conocida como conexina, que forma un puente eléctrico entre células adyacentes del corazón para garantizar que se conduzca la actividad eléctrica en el corazón a modo de onda de excitación Científicos de la Universidad de Manchester han descubierto una importante enzima que podría evitar trastornos cardíacos

El origen de las canas

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 08:02 PM PDT

Un estudio encuentra que un tipo particular de señales entre dos tipos de células madre podría ser responsable. Los orígenes de las canas podrían encontrarse en un tipo de comunicación particular entre las células madre folículos capilares y melanocitos, las células que producen y almacenan los pigmentos de la piel y el pelo, sugiere un estudio reciente. Usando modelos ratoniles,

Evidencia en pediatría.

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¿Son eficaces las revisiones de salud de los niños?

Evidencias en Pediatria - ¿Son eficaces las revisiones de salud de los niños?

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Aunque resulte paradójico, actualmente no hay todavía pruebas científicas concluyentes para poder afirmar que los resultados de las revisiones de salud (RS), en términos de salud, tengan un impacto elevado. La realidad es que las RS deben ser entendidas como un proceso continuado y no como una activ