The president’s call for creating military tribunals to try terror suspects has erupted into a clash with some of the best-known Republican Party warriors.
"Look at those chubby cheeks!" For centuries, mothers have rejoiced over pudgy babies and fretted over those who failed to plump up. Those fears are justified. Babies who don't gain weight often have significant health problems, and the condition even has a medical diagnosis: "failure to thrive." Now, with childhood obesity a growing health concern–17 percent of American kids are obese, compared with 7 percent in 1980–researchers are trying to figure out when healthy chubbiness becomes unhealthy fat. Fat kids, the scientists say, are far more likely to become fat adults, with a far greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other major diseases. But how fat is too fat?
Let me do a little number crunching on the Maryland Democratic Senate primary. Rep. Ben Cardin beat former Rep. and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume by just a 44-to-40 percent margin.
Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced this week what he called "the blessed union" of his terrorist group and the Algeria-based Salafist Group for Call and Combat (known by its initials in French as GSPC).
AP - Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted party joined a wave of criticism of Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, accusing him of trying to revive the spirit of the Crusades with remarks he made about the Muslim faith. A Turkish lawmaker said the pontiff would go down in history "in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini" for his words.
AP - Ford Motor Co. is cutting more than 10,000 additional salaried jobs, offering buyouts to all of its 75,000 U.S. hourly workers and shutting down two more plants in a plan to end financial losses and remake itself into a smaller, more competitive car company.
AP - Police found 30 bodies bearing signs of torture Friday, the latest in a wave of sectarian killings sweeping the Iraqi capital despite a monthlong security operation.
Ford Motor Co. announced a new round of plant closings and staff cuts and suspended its dividend payment Friday as it aims to save $5 billion in costs.