Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. Kids Diagnosed With ADHD
Over the last decade, an increasing number of American children have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government survey reveals. Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that between 2007 and 2009, an average of 9 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 were diagnosed [...]
Nuts-and-soy diet beats low-fat diet
People who ate a diet rich in foods that lower cholesterol, such as nuts, soy, avocado, olive oil and oats, saw a bigger drop in cholesterol than people on a low-fat diet, said a US study said. After six months of eating a diet that specifically included foods that lower LDL cholesterol, the randomized trial [...]
Texas A&M tells Big 12 it will explore conference options
Texas A&M has taken the next step toward leaving the Big 12 and joining the SEC. A letter from Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin was delivered Thursday afternoon to Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe to inform Beebe that Texas A&M is exploring its conference options. In the letter, Loftin asked Beebe to outline the [...]
Couples tells Woods he’s on Presidents Cup team
Couples took the drama out of the debate on Thursday over whether Woods would be on the team. “I’ve told him that he’s going to be on the team,” Couples said just before a practice round preparing for the Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. “There is no reason for me to wait till Sept. [...]
The Help is touching souls
It’s often been noted that before the civil rights era, the American South, while more racist than the North, was in one way more enlightened: Even at the vicious height of Jim Crow, blacks and whites coexisted with a casual and enduring day-to-day intimacy. They’d been living intertwined lives, after all, since the days of [...]
Remembering Aaliyah, 10 years later
It’s been a decade since the tragic death of R&B star and budding actress Aaliyah Dana Haughton. Just 22 years old at the time of her death, she was in the Bahamas heading back to the States after wrapping up her 2001 music video, “Rock The Boat.” The twin-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Aboard [...]
USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable?
Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren’t enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son. Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has [...]
Second-largest U.S. Indian tribe expels slave descendants
The nation’s second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners. The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil War to admit the slave descendants to the tribe. But on Monday, the Cherokee nation Supreme Court ruled that [...]
Austin Water calls for Austinites to conserve
According to Jill Mayfield, Public Affairs Coordinator for the Austin Water Department, Austin Water moved to Stage 2 Mandatory Watering Restrictions on Tuesday, September 6, due to the exceptional drought in Central Texas. Stage 2 restrictions allow for outdoor watering only once per week for residential, multifamily and commercial customers of Austin Water. “Austin City [...]
Can living downtown be affordable?
Those are some of the ideas being pitched to Austin Imagine being able to live downtown on an income as low as $16,000. Things could be a changing. Currently housing in the downtown area could be as high as 1 million dollars. McCann Adams Studio has spent several years coming up with a master plan. [...]
