President Bush warned that if Americans succumbed to ?the allure of retreat,? they will witness death and suffering of the sort not seen since the Vietnam War.
Kids heading back to enlightened schools this fall may find nutrition and exercise on the agenda even in math class. In an effort to reverse the alarming increase of obesity in children, some schools have found ways to encourage healthful lifestyle changes without emphasizing the negative?too much body weight. (A focus on losing weight has been shown to backfire, causing youngsters to turn to fad diets and develop eating disorders.) Planet Health, developed by Harvard University researchers and now used in hundreds of schools throughout the country, integrates obesity prevention lessons into the science, math, and social studies curricula, for example. Students come to appreciate the importance of reducing TV time by calculating during math class the amount of their lifetime they've spent in front of the set. In gym, they decide on goals for subbing in physical activity instead.
AP - A sprawling Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days Wednesday and quickly stretched across to the Pacific Ocean, then weakened as it drenched the central mountains with rain that flooded houses along the coast.
AP - The Pentagon will fall far short of its goal of sending 3,500 lifesaving armored vehicles to Iraq by the end of the year. Instead, officials expect to send about 1,500.
AP - President Bush, scrambling to show he still backs embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, offered him a fresh endorsement on Wednesday, calling him "a good guy, good man with a difficult job."
Colliding storm systems set off a spate of weather warnings from Colorado to Ohio. Twenty-five people are reported killed, mostly from flooding. Three of them died when lightning knocked power lines onto the street where they were standing in water.
An internal review of the actions Virginia Tech took in the hours after a gunman's rampage ended with 32 killed assigns no blame for the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, but does make security suggestions.
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