USA TODAY articles from July 2007

USA TODAY archives from July 2007

Go slow with new workout regimen.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Nature beckons, but be wary with your summer workouts, cautions kinesiology professor C. Buz Swanik of Temple University, Philadelphia. "Anytime you change the mode of exercise you're used to, you're increasing your workload," Swanik says. "If...

Are people safe from pet food scare?(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... In the most extreme risk assessment scenario, when researchers assumed that all the solid food consumed by a person in an entire day was contaminated with melamine at the levels observed in animals fed contaminated feed, the potential exposure...

Inhaled corticosteroids reduce death rate.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who use inhaled corticesteroids may have a significantly decreased mortality risk, according to a study by Christine Macie of Cambridge Hospital, Ontario, Canada. Patients who received...

Push harder during CPR.(YOUR LIFE)(Cardiopulmonary resuscitation )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The majority of people untrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even many trained emergency personnel such as firefighters, do not push with enough force to administer CPR properly, according to research at Purdue University, West...

Cleaning the garage adds to home value.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... If you are thinking about selling your home and are hoping for a quick sale, clean out the garage. Considered by homebuyers to be the third most important room in the house (just behind the kitchen and master bedroom), the garage can make or...

Ozone exacerbates pollen woes.(YOUR LIFE)(seasonal allergy)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The good news for allergy sufferers is that springtime mountain cedars and tree pollens have sub sided substantially. The bad news: It's summertime. "For summer, it will be grass pollen along with high ozone levels combining for a one-two...

Kids shopping away on the internet.(YOUR LIFE)(cyberactivities of children )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... While the Internet is an essential tool for most families, a number of parents do not have the time or expertise to use many of the time-saving opportunities it offers. As a result, they often turn to the family members who are monopolizing the...

New microscope the size of an iPod.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The old optical microscopes that everyone used in high-school biology class may be a step closer to the glass heap, as researchers at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, have announced the invention of an optofluidic microscope...

Just how many colors are there?(YOUR LIFE)(new research about colors across different cultures)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic colors into eight distinct categories: red,...

Sensor network could aid mass transit.(YOUR LIFE)(robotics innovations )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Human behavior can be observed and analyzed accurately by a complex sensor network, a system that ultimately could benefit public transportation, homeland security, and crime prevention, reports a research team at the Indiana University School...

Do we really want a perfect world?(YOUR LIFE)(religious views and environmental ideologies)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... As science and technology advance to give humans more control of the world around them--from curing disease and lengthening lifespans to inventing new fuels and engineering genetically superior crops--people who study ethics find more questions...

Ultrasound that works like 3-D movies.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Parents-to-be soon might don special glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," maintain researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, N.C....

Death of pensions looms large.(YOUR LIFE)(pensions from companies and the federal government)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The largest generation in American history is starting to retire, wreaking havoc with our economy from two different directions, predicts Harry S. Dent, Jr., founder and president of the HS Dent Foundation. In his "Death of Pensions" report, he...

Overwhelming feelings of wanting and liking.(YOUR LIFE)(how our brains affect our human tendencies)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Wanting and liking are separate urges controlled by different cerebral circuits and, when combined at once, the impact on the brain is especially powerful, relate researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The brain divides...

America still singing the executioner's song.(YOUR LIFE)(United States still on the list of countries that have high statistics on executions)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The number of executions worldwide fell from 2,148 in 2005 to 1,591 in 2006, Amnesty International revealed in its annual report on global death penalty statistics. Some 91% of all known executions took place in China, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq,...

Fearing the new & improved Hillary Clinton.(National Affairs)
July 1, 2007... HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON has been many things throughout her life, but one thing she always has been is a dedicated, unapologetic liberal. In fact, with the possible exception of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, she is the most identifiable...

Nation vs. Religion vs. State.(WORLD WATCHER)
July 1, 2007... IN 1964, POLITICAL SCIENTIST Ernst B. Haas wrote Beyond the Nation-State, contending that the nation-state system was dysfunctional and should be replaced. Just on the back end of the European colonialist system, Haas was proposing movement to...

Learning from the management style of "the great communicator.".(Profiles in History)(Ronald Reagan's governance styles and methods)
July 1, 2007... IT IS VERY COMMON to hear that government would run better if it were more businesslike. That may be true much of the time. Nevertheless, let us turn the tables on that proposition. Couldn't business benefit from learning some management...

In search of Reagan.(STATE OF THE NATION)(Ronald Reagan's great legacy)
July 1, 2007... AT THE FIRST TELEVISED Republican presidential debate held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the candidates stumbled all over each other paying homage to Mrs. Reagan and claiming the right to wear Reagan's mantle--a leader with a...

The character of George Washington.(Profiles in History)
July 1, 2007... THERE IS A LINE in the song "America the Beautiful" of some significance: "Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears." It means that the cities of the U.S., unlike those of Europe, have not been torn and destroyed by war. That is...

Climate refugees' growing tab.(ECONOMIC OBSERVER)(hurricane Katrina's impact)
July 1, 2007... THOSE OF US WHO TRACK the effects of global warming had assumed that the first large flow of climate refugees likely would be in the South Pacific with the abandonment of Tuvalu or other low-lying islands. We were wrong. The first massive...

John Adams and the pursuit of happiness.(Profiles in History)(Biography)
July 1, 2007... I THINK THAT WE NEED history as much as we need bread or water or love. To make the point, I want to discuss a single human being and why we should know him. First off, he is an example of the transforming miracle of education. When he and...

Benedict Arnold crippled in battle.(Profiles in History)
July 1, 2007... "Having been wounded twice and, very possibly, fated to be an invalid for the rest of his life, he started turning his attention away from further military assignments. Poison may have stopped oozing from his leg, but his heart remained full of...

The legacy of Lafayette.(Profiles in History)(Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Moiler de La Fayette)(Biography)
July 1, 2007... THIS SEPTEMBER marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Moiler de La Fayette, who was born in the Chateau de Chavaniac in the same room where his father had been born before him. Lafayette later...

Remembering the summer of love.(Museums Today)(Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era)
July 1, 2007... THE EMERGENCE and flowering of psychedelic art coincided with one of the most revolutionary and tumultuous periods of the 20th century. Forty years after the legendary summer of 1967, an exhibition revisiting the Summer of Love traces the...

Dazzled from port Clyde to Paris.(Museums Todays)(great landscape paintings by Barbara Ernst Prey)
July 1, 2007... ALMOST 40 VIVID watercolors by Barbara Ernst Prey, whose poignant paintings--many of seascapes and others of the fisherman's off-season workshop--will go on display this summer in a much-anticipated exhibition that should prove to be one of the...

Happy anniversary to some very special artists: the Muscular Dystrophy Association Art Collection provides vivid proof that the ability to create simply cannot be quelled, no matter what the physical limitations.(Museums Today)(Transcending Barriers)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... THE MDA ART COLLECTION is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a "Transcending Barriers" exhibition that can be seen at the Children's Museum of Houston through July 29. The Collection features the work of young and adult artists across the...

The many faces of Joan of Arc.(Museums Today)(Joan of Arc: Medieval Maiden to Modern Saint)
July 1, 2007... THE FRENCH MEDIEVAL heroine Joan of Arc is the subject of an exhibition that focuses not only on the historical figure, but on the manner in which she has been characterized and portrayed through time: a bold warrior, pious maiden, fashionable...

How Kit Carson helped tame the West: the legendary explorer and mountain man--who could neither read nor write, yet was fluent in a number of languages--provides historians with an interesting paradox: a daring and fearless individual who was both friend and foe to Native Americans.(USA Yesterday)(Christopher Carson, an American pioneer)(Biography)
July 1, 2007... AROUND 1825, the Missouri Intelligencer carried this ad: "Notice is hereby given to all persons that Christopher Carson, a boy of sixteen, small for his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber living in Franklin, Howard...

Is there any way out?(American Thought)(President George W. Bush's policies on Iraq and the war on terrorism)
July 1, 2007... GEORGE W. BUSH has been racing around the globe, as many presidents do during the last two years of their terms, trying his best to keep the ship of state afloat. However, almost every day, or at least every week, he seems to face a new crisis...

The heat is on.(EYE ON ECOLOGY)(reports on global temperature)
July 1, 2007... THE YEAR 2005 WAS THE HOTTEST on record. The average global surface temperature of 58.6[degrees]F was the highest since such data has been kept, beginning in 1880. January, April, September, and October of 2005 were the hottest of those months...

Any lessons from Virginia Tech?(Psychology)(the Virginia Tech tragedy)
July 1, 2007... THE VIRGINIA TECH tragedy did not happen because of an obvious or single cause, and future such events will not be prevented by an obvious or single measure. Yet, this horrific slaughter of innocent students predictably raised excruciatingly...

Hostages of non-news.(WORDS IMAGES)(mass media's social responsibilities)
July 1, 2007... PRETEND THAT YOU ARE an editor of a major news distribution agency such as a newspaper, television network, or cable news show. Your job is to exercise news judgment and decide what stories your readers or viewers must know to have a pretty...

Why kidnap victims and battered women may be to slow to escape.(Psychology)
July 1, 2007... IN JANUARY, THE SEARCH for a missing 13-year-old boy, Ben Ownby, led police to the home of his suspected kidnapper, Michael Devlin. There they found not one, but two, kidnap victims. Shawn Hornbeck had been abducted while riding his bicycle...

Time flies.(SPORTS SCENE)(50th anniversary of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers)
July 1, 2007... MY DAUGHTER already a somewhat smug--but adoringly so--Yankee fan at the tender age of four (she's now 11), is fond of putting the same question to me every summer: "Daddy," she asks, her face plastered with that irrepressibly knowing grin,...

Shaking off the shadow of ovarian cancer.(Medicine & Health)
July 1, 2007... ABOUT ONE IN EVERY 57 women in the U.S. will have ovarian cancer at some point in her life, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute. Each year, approximately 22,000 individuals are diagnosed with the disease, and more than...

What would Red have said?(REEL WORLD)(Red Skelton)(Excerpt)
July 1, 2007... FOR SOME TIME, my writing focus has been on the underrated film and television clown Red Skelton. I recently completed a second biography, and am now working on a novelized memoir--writing as if I were the comedian. This exercise in nonfiction...

Marginalizing the middle class: cable TV heavyweight Lou Dobbs lambasts big government and big business for stripping hardworking Americans of their money and dignity.(Literary Scene)
July 1, 2007... LOU DOBBS, AUTHOR of Exporting America and Space: The Next Business Frontier and award-winning anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," has received the Peabody Award, Luminary Award, Horatio Alger Association Award for...

Colorful flowers that are simply beautiful.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... It is with much anticipation that we await the summer growing season each year, more so the last few since we discovered the Simply Beautiful brand of flowers from Ball Horticultural Company, West Chicago, Ill. Since we have a hankering for...

Don't just write me--say something!(WHAT'S NEW?)(Talking Pens from JDK Products)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Although most adults find it difficult to sit through movies such as "Napoleon Dynamite" or cable TV's "Family Guy" show, the teen demographic can't get enough. So, the Talking Pens ($4.99-$6.99) from JDK Products, Largo, Fla., are right up...

Indulge your summer palate with Torani.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... With all the barbecues, pool parties, and even cool, summer nights spent sitting on the deck, our social calendar seems to be ratcheted up this time of year. We may not always plan to fire up the grill, but, at the very least, we must offer our...

Craving Chocolat Michel Cluizel.(WHAT'S NEW?)(chocolate candies)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... There are few things in life that bring as much pleasure to as many people as chocolate. Seems each and every day there comes a point where the craving hits us and we just have to have a taste. Filling a sweet tooth is one thing, but taking a...

Electrolux's intensity is just that.(WHAT'S NEW?)(vacuum cleaner)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... When we think about our lives today and our children's lives and the differences from the way that we grew up, the most glaring change seems to be how much more stuff we have. Our closets, basements, attics, and every available corner seem to...

AirBlox tower over construction sites.(WHAT'S NEW?)(construction toy set)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Instead of those little construction blocks your kids used as pre-schoolers, wouldn't it be really neat if they could construct life-sized structures quickly, easily, and safely? Now they can thanks to AirBlox, an innovative inflatable block...

Sharing a pizza with Homer Simpson.(WHAT'S NEW?)(pizza cutter featuring Simpson characters)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The next time you whip up a pizza for lunch with the kids, or have some friends over for a homemade pie while watching the ball game--and by homemade we mean get the dough anyway you need to, from your favorite takeout joint, frozen,...

Swashbuckling fun for budding buccaneers.(What's New?)(pirate toys and games)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ahoy there, Mateys! As you may have noticed, pirates are everywhere these days. From feature films to reality TV, it seems you can't turn around without seeing these marauders of the high seas. So, why should the little ones be left out of the...

Keeping baby safe from the sun.(What's New?)(toletries for babies)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... We've all heard the warnings about the dangers of the sun. It's especially important that we heed those cautions when it comes to our children. Although physicians recommend that babies be kept out of the sun completely, sometimes that is not...

Museum memo.(What's New?)(schedule of exhibitions)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... What's new in museums around the country? Among the more interesting exhibitions on view are: Eugene Boudin, through Aug. 5, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, through Sept, 3, and States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns,...

Make way for the fashionistas.(What's New?)(children's toy)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... For hopeful young fashion designers out there--and we know there are quite a few of the--Creativity for Kids from Faber-Castell, Cleveland, Ohio, has the perfect kit, Designed by You Fashion Studio ($29.99). The set comes with a 12" dress...

A self-cleaning, litter-free Cat box.(What's New?)(electronic cat litter box)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... CatGenie from PetNovations, Inc, Wayne, Pa., is a cat box just like your cat. Completely self-washing, it's litter free so you'll never scoop, touch, or change litter again. This self-flushing, self-washing cat box uses permanent, cat-comfy...

A "real" Night at the Museum.(What's New?)(watching "A Night at the Museum" and an overnight stay at New York's Museum of Natural History)
July 1, 2007... Now this was way cool. First, we were going to be the first to see "A Night at the Museum." Then. we were going to be the first actually to spend a night at the museum. The New York's Museum of Natural History had extended to me and my...

By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... BY HIS OWN HAND? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis EDITED BY JOHN D.W. GUICE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2007, 178 PAGES, $14.95 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to the St. Louis area from their epic journey to the...

In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... IN AN INSTANT A Family's Journey of Love and Healing BY LEE AND BOB 'WOODRUFF RANDOM HOUSE 2007, 289 PAGES, $25.95 The adage that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, finds its classic example in the case of ABO news anchor Bob...

The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... THE POWER OF PLAY How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children BY DAVID ELKIND DE CAPO LIFELONG BOOKS 2007, 240 PAGES, $24.00 The subtitle to this book aptly applies to adults as well as kids. Grownups...

A huge helping of heroes.(PARTING THOUGHTS)
July 1, 2007... EVERY SOCIETY MUST HAVE HEROES. These exemplars of humanity belong to the ages, and nations can refresh their pride and patriotism by recalling their deeds and legacies. Heroes serve as role models and psychologically are a projection of our...