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The server's owner returned from vacation and fixed the problem with the 
permission settings, so I updated.  I have more articles, but I thought 
that might be too much excitement after three months.  I'll eventually 
get around to the big stuff.  Iraq.  Israel.  The sad state of affairs 
in Europe.  Drugs and terrorism.  How my cousin didn't know the phone 
number and address of the father of her baby, even though they "dated" 
for six months.

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AUSTRALIA: Forget fit, tanned and sporty. The new generation of 
Australians is fast becoming fat, pale and lazy. 

A love of junk food, television and computer games has sent the 
country's waistline ballooning, with Australians weighing in as the 
world's second fattest nation after the United States. 

Rather than hitting the beaches, thousands of young Aussies are heading 
for the couch with a bag of popcorn, with one child in every four 
classified as overweight or obese. 

The trend is squashing the widely-held image of Australians being 
sun-bronzed and superfit. 

"The rate of obesity, particularly among children, seems to be going up 
faster in Australia than anywhere else in the world, but we don't know 
why," Peter Williams, president of the Dietitians Association of 
Australia, said. 

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, estimate 60 per cent 
of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children are overweight 
or obese – a huge jump from five per cent in the 1960s. 

A sedentary lifestyle and a changing diet has doubled the number of 
obese Australians and trebled the army of fat children in the past 
decade. 

Postal worker Richard O'Brien hit the headlines in August when it was 
revealed that the then 177kg parcel sorter was forced to take sick leave 
to lose weight. 

O'Brien, 53, an Irish-born former rugby prop, was told by his manager at 
Australia Post, the country's mail monopoly, to lose 40kg before he came 
back to work. 

"He's back at work now and deemed fit to do his modified duties," 
Australia Post spokesman Gary Highland said, declining to confirm that 
O'Brien had lost 30kg in five months. 

The attack on fat is accompanied by a constant flow of ideas and media 
coverage to encourage the battle against the bulge. 

Guy Barnett, a senator from the island state of Tasmania, has called for 
fast food to carry warnings like cigarette packets in case of litigation 
over obesity-related health problems. 

Other lobby groups want food advertising banned on television during 
peak viewing time for children, while some nutritionists want a ban on 
junk food in school canteens. 

Celebrity gossip magazines are joining the bandwagon with "before and 
after" photographs of once chubby stars. 

Top Australian cricketer Shane Warne, once nicknamed "fat boy" by his 
fans, has dropped about 10kg to 84kg by twice-a-day gym sessions, 
changing his diet and not drinking beer. 

"I reckon it's the fittest I've been in my career," the champion 
leg-spinner told Australian Women's Weekly magazine. 

But the main focus in Australia has been on the increasing size of the 
nation's 3.9 million youngsters. 

"The epidemic is here and with it will come a tidal wave of poor health 
among teenagers and young adults," said Newcastle University nutrition 
lecturer Clare Collins. 

Bob Carr, the slender state premier of New South Wales, told a Sydney 
obesity summit in September that children with a fat and sugar-laden 
diet were victims of "child cruelty". 


Source: Stuff.nz

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TORONTO — The mother of a doctor who grew up in Halifax is frustrated 
that her son has been arrested and held by United States immigration 
officials over a case of a mistaken identity.

Ricky Chadda, 33, voluntarily appeared at U.S. Immigration and 
Naturalization Service offices in San Diego on Thursday morning to clear 
up confusion over his name for the third time.

But upon his arrival, Chadda was handcuffed, arrested and taken into 
custody, where he remained yesterday.

“Somebody has to do something about this stupid American government,” 
said his mother, Daljit Chadda, a retired teacher from Halifax. “They 
call this justice, but I call it discrimination and torture.”

The younger Chadda had gone to the office prepared for a routine 
meeting. He had with him the court papers and documentation he’d 
collected from the previous two times American police had mistaken his 
identity.

His latest encounter with immigration officials came after he was told, 
at an airport last month, that his name matched that of a warrant in a 
police database. He promised to go to the INS offices and explain, once 
again, he wasn’t the Chadda who had stolen a car last year.

Chadda moved south to work at U.S. hospitals in 1996.

Many Canadians have been shocked by the behaviour of U.S. immigration 
agents in recent weeks. Chadda’s arrest happened on the same day a 
Quebec man was released by the U.S. Border Patrol after five weeks in 
jail for going 15 metres inside U.S. territory to buy gasoline.

Source: CP
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CHICAGO - A suburban Wiccan is accusing Mary Kay Cosmetics of 
discriminating against her at work. 

Elizabeth Cornman, a self-described Wiccan and Pagan, alleges that the 
Texas-based company discriminated against her because of her religious 
beliefs, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday in Chicago.

The suit seeks $300,000 for emotional distress and an unspecified amount 
of back pay from wages lost after the alleged discrimination forced her 
on a medical leave of absence.

Noting that Wiccans don't subscribe to witchery or Satanism, the lawsuit 
contends that Mary Kay managers tried to prevent the customer service 
representative from practicing her beliefs, which include worshipping 
the Pagan gods Oden, Thor and Freya and the Wiccan worship of air, 
water, earth and fire.

The suit contends that company managers removed from her desk a sand 
garden in which she drew runes, religious signs that gave her a guiding 
principle for the day.

Cornman's beliefs became known to her superiors in early 2002, when, as 
the suit states, she began to "come out of the closet" about her Wiccan 
ways.

After that, she was disciplined for relatively harmless conduct, such as 
closing a copy machine door too hard and taking the Lord's name in vain, 
according to the suit.

The suit also alleges Cornman was retaliated against - via poor job 
reviews - after she filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity 
Commission, which determined she had a right to sue the cosmetic company 
under federal anti-employer discrimination laws.


Source: Daily Herald

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CALIFORNIA - Decisions about how school districts deal with drugs on 
campus soon could be influenced more by marketing and less by need.

A wave of promotions by drug-testing companies has begun in response to 
a Supreme Court decision in June that expanded the rights of schools to 
test students for drugs.

The companies hope to gain the business of school districts, which, 
according to the 5-4 decision, now have the right to perform urine tests 
on students in sports, competitive after-school activities -like band or 
choir -and those who drive to school.

"I've been calling district superintendents ever since the ruling came 
out," said Jeffrey Ellins, president of Datco Services Corp., a 
drug-testing company in Grass Valley.

One district Ellins has contacted is the Roseville Joint Union High 
School District, which is considering using his testing service.

District officials also are talking about random campus visits by 
drug-sniffing dogs -- all part of a larger discussion of revamping the 
district's drug policies.

Ellins, whose company tests athletes in the Nevada Joint Union High 
School District for drugs, said he also is in discussions with school 
districts in Yuba and Humboldt counties.

"A lot of people are starting the process, just like the Roseville high 
school district is," he said.

The discussion in the Roseville district coincides with promotional 
efforts by a local franchise of Interquest Canine Detection, a national 
corporation that has contracts with 1,300 school districts across the 
country, 300 of which are in California, mostly in the southern part of 
the state, said Laura Pinnick, owner of the Auburn franchise.

Since opening her business in April, Pinnick said, "The main goal (has 
been) starting to call on the big school districts in the area because 
it takes forever for them approve this kind of thing."

In a report to the Roseville high school board, Brubaker estimated that 
it would cost $16,000 to $18,000 a year for the dog visits and as much 
as $5,000 a month for the drug tests.

Just because services like canine detection and drug testing are 
available and the practices are legal does not mean they are appropriate 
in schools, said Graham Boyd, director of the American Civil Liberties 
Union's drug litigation project.

"This is not like buying pencils or notebooks," Boyd said from his New 
Haven, Conn. office. "It is about taking care of your students. And it 
is a serious privacy invasion for the students to give their urine."

Although testing student athletes for drug use has been legal since 
1995, just 5 percent of schools have implemented the practice, said 
Boyd.

Shortly after the decision this summer, Boyd said, the drug testing 
industry met and encouraged businesses to market themselves to school 
districts.

He said he knew of a drug-testing company in Florida that was offering a 
free-trial deal to school districts.

"Where you find the most drug testing is usually in communities where 
there's the least drug use," Boyd said. "The decision to test is more 
about politics and less about helping kids."

In Roseville, some parents, students and school board members are 
questioning the need for urine testing and drug-sniffing dogs.

Karen Wehr, parent of an Oakmont student and president of the football 
boosters club, said the ideas the district have introduced are too 
extreme. She said that teens who might be using drugs should be able to 
rely on their school community for support.

"If the coach is doing his job and checking on the kids and creating a 
real connection with them, he can be talking to the kids and helping 
them that way," Wehr said.

"I know these kids and, for some of them, the only good thing they have 
in their life is being on the football team," she said.

That is exactly why drug testing works as an excellent deterrent for 
student athletes, said Ellins of the Datco drug testing company.

"Kids want to do sports, it gives them a great opportunity to say 'no' 
to drugs," he said.

"Now, what they do on the off-season, I'm not even going to venture a 
guess. But during the season, they have a pact to stay off the funny 
stuff," Ellins said.

Students interviewed at Oakmont High School generally were opposed to 
ramping up the district's drug policy.

"They should just worry about teaching us and not about controlling us 
-- we have parents for that," said Michelle McKee, 16.

On the Roseville High School campus, Marlene Tamayo, 17, a student 
representative to the district board of trustees, said drug tests and 
canine sweeps were ideas worth considering.

"You'd be uncomfortable but maybe it could possibly pressure those 
involved with drugs to get help for themselves," she said.

On the other hand, Tamayo said, random visits by dogs might just 
encourage those students to skip school.

"If students stray away from our school, where would that lead them? To 
another school? To drop out altogether? Those are things we need to 
consider," she said.

Source: Sacramento Bee

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