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Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication articles from March 2005

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Trouble in the tropics searching for the source of malaria.(Doctor Detective)

Mar 01, 2005 ... Background: Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases on Earth, infecting more than 250 million people each year and killing more than 1 million. It begins with flulike symptoms, including fever, chills, and nausea. Without treatment, malaria can cause blindness, brain damage, or death ....

Clinic to honor girl's memory.(PULSE)(Mexico Highway 8 gets emergency-care facility)

Mar 01, 2005 ... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Kelsey Thomsen might be alive today had there been an emergency facility along a stretch of road called Mexico Highway 8. Kelsey, who was 20 when she died, was involved in a car accident at a remote point on the highway. The highway runs between Sonoita, ...

Smoking slows healing.(PULSE)(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Not that you need one, but here's another reason to stay away from cigarettes: New studies show that cigarette smoke mucks up the human body's process of healing. When the body suffers a wound--cut, bruise, puncture, and so on--a complex reaction occurs to ...

Pizza good for the heart?(PULSE)(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... MILAN, Italy -- Food that's good for you doesn't have to taste bad. Scientists at an Italian research institute have found a link between eating pizza and having a lower risk of heart disease. The scientists interviewed hundreds of people who had suffered heart attacks and ...

Dolphin undergoes pig transplant.(PULSE)(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... WAIKOLOA, Hawaii -- Liko is a 3-year-old bottlenose dolphin that lives at Dolphin Quest, a swim-with-the-dolphins park in Hawaii. Last year, Liko was horsing around with some other dolphins and tore his dorsal (top) fin. The gash was life-threatening because a dolphin depends on ...

Overweight kids risk sleep disorder.(PULSE)(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... LONDON -- According to researchers at the Royal London Hospital in England, kids who weigh much more than they should are at higher risk of developing a dangerous sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In OSA the flow of air into and out of the lungs becomes ...

Can vaccine stop super-infectious virus?(PULSE)(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... ST. LOUIS -- Scientists at Washington University might have found a way to "just say no" to a dreaded virus. The virus, known as norovirus, causes diarrhea and vomiting in an estimated 23 million people in the United States each year. As many as 50,000 Americans infected with ...

Sneezin' season: there's a good reason for your spring sneezing: hay fever.(DISEASE & DISORDERS)

Mar 01, 2005; ... Drew Hires, 14, was 8 years old when he came down with what he thought was a cold. "But it went on and on," he said. Eventually, Drew's parents suspected, and his doctor confirmed, that the cold was no cold. It was hay fever, a chronic condition marked by nasal congestion, sneezing, watery ...

Why pot's not cool: how marijuana messes with your brain and body.(DRUGS & ALCOHOL)

Mar 01, 2005; ... Late one evening in the fall of 2004, doctors wheeled a 17-year-old girl into the emergency room at the Stanford University Medical Center in California. The girl was suffering from multiple injuries sustained when the car she was driving flipped over. The teen survived, but another girl, ...

Getting help: two teens in treatment get real about what it's like to smoke pot.(DRUGS & ALCOHOL)

Mar 01, 2005 ... Javon Thomas was standing in the stairwell of his Manhattan apartment building when he saw his best friend smoking pot. "I guess I felt the peer pressure," he told Current Health. "You just want to be a part of something." He took a puff and didn't feel much of anything. He was 13 years ...

Going for the goal! Millions of teens are getting in on the game of soccer. Learn from a pro how to play smart--and stay injury-free.(COVER FOCUS)

Mar 01, 2005; ... Freddy Adu remembers the cold Saturday afternoon when he proved to his teammates that he belonged. It was Nov. 6, 2004, and time had run out in a game between the New England Revolution and the DC United, the Washington, D.C., Major League Soccer (MLS) professional team for which Freddy ...

Bouncing back: how to get on your feet when life knocks you down.(PSYCHOLOGY)

Mar 01, 2005; ... When Beth Driscoll of Denton, Texas, was in middle school, she dreamed of following her friends to a private high school. Her family didn't have the money, so she went to the local public high school. Beth made it work. But in her senior year, she got more bad news--her dad had lost his ...

Cover your ears: how to protect yourself against the world's biggest burp (and other loud noises).(YOUR PERSONAL HEALTH)

Mar 01, 2005; ... The guy is big. I mean big, OK? Sleeveless T-shirt. Tattoos. Long hair. Deep, gravelly voice, like Darth Vader with a bad cold. He's standing next to his van and telling me how loud he can burp. Seriously. Then he lets one rip. The sound is so loud, it cracks the windshield ...

The lunch bunch: forget fast food. Kids in the Edible Schoolyard program are slowing down for home-cooked meals they prepare themselves.(NUTRITION)

Mar 01, 2005; ... "What's for lunch?" For many kids, the answer is either mystery meat and fries from the school cafeteria or chips and a soft drink from the vending machine. But for students at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, Calif., the answer might be red-bean stew, stuffed grape ...

Scorched! How to handle different types of burns.(FIRST AID & SAFETY)

Mar 01, 2005; ... Bryant Rice, 14, of Ravenna, Neb., was home alone one day when he decided to burn a stump in the yard. First he tried lighting the stump with a match. When that failed, he poured gasoline onto it and made a gas trail leading away from the stump, thinking the trail would act as a fuse. ...

What's up, doc?

Mar 01, 2005 ... Q: What is a wart? Kristin B., Pennsylvania A: A wart, or verruca, is a small growth on the surface of the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). A wart can be smooth and have a flat top, or it can be raised. Several kinds of warts exist, including plantar ...

Hidden risks.(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... USE THIS REPRODUCTION MASTER WITH THE ARTICLE "WHY POT'S NOT COOL." Answer the following questions. 1. What kinds of feelings does a marijuana high produce? -- 2. What are some of the effects of the frequent use of marijuana? -- 3. What are ...

Burn basics: a quiz.(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... USE THIS REPRODUCTION MASTER WITH THE ARTICLE "SCORCHED!" Answer the following questions. 1. You spend too much time in the sun. At night, your skin is red and sore. How should you treat the burn? -- 2. Your mother is cooking dinner, and boiling water ...

Get your kicks from soccer.(Brief Article)

Mar 01, 2005 ... USE THIS REPRODUCTION MASTER WITH THE ARTICLE "GOING FOR THE GOAL!" 1. Soccer can be great fun, but players may be injured. List three parts of the body that are commonly injured in kids between the ages of 10 and 17. a. b. c. 2 ....

Democracy's new face.(elections in Iraq to choose members of National Assembly)

Mar 04, 2005

Time trip.(restriction of civil rights under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein)

Mar 04, 2005

Geo quest.(find out the name of this ancient city in Iraq)

Mar 04, 2005

Reading, writing, and religion? A debate of biblical proportions.(religious education in public schools)

Mar 04, 2005

News map of the week.(questions about ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq)

Mar 04, 2005

Just the facts.(questions about elections for Iraq's National Assembly, ethnic cleansing in Irak, and religion in American public schools)

Mar 04, 2005