Senate Panel Backs Ratification Of Russia Nuke Treaty

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday endorsed a nuclear weapons control treaty signed in April by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The new START treaty would reinstate the ground inspections that lapsed in December and reduce each country's deployed nuclear arsenal by 30 percent. But with election-year opposition running high, it's unclear whether the full Senate will pass it. Three Republicans voted for the measure in committee; at least eight are needed to reach the two-thirds majority required for ratification.

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Books, Stress, Pizza: A Recipe For The 'Freshman 15'?

Many of us know how easy it is to gain a few pounds. But over the next few months, one population will be at very high risk: college freshmen.

First-year college students typically gain about five pounds. "It's not exactly the 'freshman 15,' " says psychologist Susan Albers of the Cleveland Clinic, author of Eating Mindfully. But, she says, five pounds can lead to more weight gain when students fall into bad habits.

Students are most vulnerable in the first semester, as they're adjusting to the freedoms of dorm life and the all-you-can-eat meal plans. But a simple awareness of weight seems to go a long way, according to a few recent studies.

Stepping On The Scale

Researchers at Cornell University put scales in the dorm rooms of a group of freshmen and asked them to weigh themselves each morning. Then researchers graphed the students' daily reading s to show the trends over weeks.

"The freshmen that we gave the scales to didn't gain any weight," says David Levitsky, a professor of Psychology and Nutritional Sciences.

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