Subject: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Needle Point

  April 12, 2007

• In the Inner City, An Alternative to Abortion

  March 21, 2007

• The Forbes 35 (Drunkest)

  November 30, 2006

• Sick, or Sick in the Head?

  August 1, 2006

• DISD Now $316,000 Lighter

  February 27, 2008

• DISD's Whistleblower Alleges District Retaliation in Federal Lawsuit

  May 13, 2008

• Just Put Down the Tomato and Back Away Slowly -- and Panic! Or Don't.

  June 3, 2008

• Youth Risk Survey Has Some Good News -- And, For Latinos, Some Bad News

  June 4, 2008

• Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

  August 30, 2008

• Betty's In Charge

  March 27, 1997

• The war over Gulf War Syndrome

  March 5, 1998

• Death on tap

  July 2, 1998

• Toxic Justice

  August 13, 1998

• Let 'em eat loin

  December 31, 1998

• Gimme gimme

  May 13, 1999

• Unacceptable Risk

  June 3, 1999

• Where There's Smoke

  April 25, 2002

• Latin Beat

  August 29, 2002

• Knocking Noggin

  December 26, 2002

• Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

  The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It struck me that: 1. "laugh out loud" isn't that difficult to type. 2. it's official, our laziness has become lazy. When in the name of Jack LaLanne did our lame asses become DOA? Our latest exerci

  March 31, 2009

• Chewing the Fat: Measuring Every Chug

  Gotta wonder if the folks at the Centers for Disease Control will come out with a list of top party schools now. A new study released by the organization says the typical American binge drinker is a white male, aged 18-34. No kidding. The news comes courtesy of Drugs.com. They note that the CDC defined "binge drinking" as five or more drinks per session. One finding that sounds self-fulfilling: College grads binge less than those with "some" college. Seems drop-outs probably partied too h

  April 3, 2009

• Old Ghosts

  Evolution ain't afraid of no aliens, but you should be

  June 7, 2001

• Gangsta Lean

  August 21, 2008

• American Toxic

  The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  December 6, 2007

• Shoot Up Your Kid

  March 1, 2007

• Med Head

  Urban Bistro’s menu is studded with imaginative vignettes

  October 5, 2006

• The Plague

  July 20, 2006

• Health Class

  Central Dallas Ministries documents diabetes among the undocumented

  April 6, 2006

• Dr. Disaster

  When the world is falling to pieces, emergency doctor Paul Pepe makes order from chaos

  November 24, 2005

• Clean Sweep

  Take Back Your Saturday Morning at ZaSpa

  June 2, 2005

• Mighty and Young No More

  Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

  February 17, 2005

• The Missing People's Agenda

  Plus: The Turkey Test; New Sheriff in Town

  November 11, 2004

• Up the Crick

  To Deep Ellum's problems, add this: an underground raging river of poop

  June 24, 2004

• No Trespassing

  When teens vow not to have sex, the moral to their story isn't always clear

  December 18, 2003

• Cocktail Hours

  The latest AIDS medications give life to the dying--but what kind of life?

  November 13, 2003

• Green Giant

  Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

  December 5, 2002

• Eschewing the Fat

  Interest groups battle over your next meal

  October 17, 2002

• Race With a Killer

  A Dallas doctor believes he holds a miracle treatment for a disease that maims and kills children. Proving it will take another miracle.

  October 17, 2002

• Living La Vida SIDA

  After his younger brother died of AIDS, Joseluis Partida dedicated his life to warning people about the disease. But the politics of being gay and Hispanic made it tougher than he ever imagined.

  June 14, 2001

• Cloudy Issue

  Bill proposes to ban smoking in Texas restaurants

  March 1, 2001

• Planet Mold

  The latest environmental hazard in Dallas and the country is displacing homeowners, covering walls and pets, and making lawyers even richer. Welcome to the weird world of "black mold."

  February 22, 2001

• Slaughterhouse Jive

  Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

  December 21, 2000

• From Russia, with bugs

  Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

  June 22, 2000

• Hash Over

  Beer bust; Buck banger

  May 4, 2000

• Chewing the Fat: CDC Says Shake the Salt

  Those fun-loving sorts over at the CDC have one more thing you need to stop eating. A report released last month advises Americans to--surprise!--consume less salt. Americans eat 3,436mg of salt daily, compared to the CDC's recommendation of 2300mg. In response, Divine Caroline brings some timely information to the table (pun not intended...and probably not welcome). Namely, that it's tougher to avoid salty foods than you might think. The post provides a small list of foods, obtained from C

  April 14, 2009

• Do You Have a Face Mask and Some Tamiflu I Can Borrow? Give 'Em Back, Swear.

  An out-of-state colleague wondered late yesterday, "Is it true that the state of Texas has canceled all sports events till May 11? Does that include Astros and Rangers?" Um ... no. Alas, such was his reading of a breathless, since-vanished New York Times story concerning the University Interscholastic League's decision to postpone all events till May 11 due to the swine flu. Another Friend of Unfair Park sent an e-mail pointing out the irony of the UIL's decision:Three weeks ago, the Texas Educa

  April 30, 2009

• Turns Out, All It Takes to Kill Dallas's Convention Business Is a Little Swine Flu Scare

  Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a "Future Connect leadership development conference" on May 4-6, followed by a "MARKETECHNICS® technology event" May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at the Dallas Convention Center, and "show organizers had estimated about 3,500 food retailers, wholesalers and suppliers would have attended the event." Alas, the FMI's president and CEO

  April 30, 2009

• Smokey dare: Maybe it's time to regulate marijuana like cigarettes

  August 20, 2009

• Goin’ To The Chapel: When Is A Mexican Girl Ripe For Marriage

  September 3, 2009

• Why Blame The Food?

  ​I think it was last week when I came across an AP story detailing the efforts of the San Antonio Restaurant Association to encourage healthier cooking at the city's Tex-Mex and Mexican eateries. Seems the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed San Antonio behind only Detroit, Memphis and Martinsburg, West Virginia, in terms of obesity percentage.Not very pretty company.Obviously there's nothing wrong with healthy dishes. And any effort to educate a population on the joys of the foo

  September 14, 2009