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Following the food from farm to school

by Melissa Tussing | Jun 10, 2010 | Science + Technology, Topics

Get the Flash Player to see this content. A student at Next Step Public Charter School adds carrots to his salad. Melissa Tussing/MNS WASHINGTON – D.C. Central Kitchen provides 4,500 meals each day for the hungry in Washington. Hundreds of those meals go to two...

Adding another dimension to sports programming

by Danny Sirdofsky | Jun 10, 2010 | Science + Technology

WASHINGTON — On Friday ESPN will begin broadcasting select sporting events in 3-D, starting with the opening match of the World Cup between the host-nation South Africa and Mexico. Following in the wake of Hollywood’s latest trend, the sports programming world...

Trying to get a man to the doctor?
It could take some time

by Melissa Tussing | Jun 7, 2010 | Science + Technology

Get the Flash Player to see this content. Personal trainer Crystal Norman helps Marcus Langford lift weights at the Results Gym on Capitol Hill. Melissa Tussing/MNS WASHINGTON – Mark and Denise Looper run a physical therapy clinic in Seattle, Wash. But the only...

Can the advertising and entertainment industries help shrink childhood obesity?

by Jeniece Pettitt | Jun 1, 2010 | Politics, Science + Technology

iStock WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama wants the food, beverage and entertainment industries to police themselves and stop advertising unhealthy products to kids, part of the first lady’s efforts to reduce childhood obesity. But critics say, while those industries...

House skeptical of NASA’s human spaceflight plan

by Danny Sirdofsky | May 26, 2010 | Science + Technology

WASHINGTON — NASA’s plan to scrap the Constellation program took another round of criticism and questioning in a House committee hearing Wednesday, this time from a skeptical set of congressmen, as well as former astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, who...

For kids with food allergies, life can be ‘terrifying’

by Melissa Tussing | May 26, 2010 | Science + Technology

Get the Flash Player to see this content. Aliya (left) and Whitney pack their lunches before school. Melissa Tussing/MNS WASHINGTON – Aliya and Whitney are two of 3 million children in America who have food allergies. Eleven states including Maryland provide...
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