| Bret Baier
Bret Baier is the Chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity Baier reports on presidential activities on a national and international scale. Prior to being named Chief White House correspondent, Baier served as a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy, and the intelligence community from the Pentagon. Throughout his career, he has secured numerous exclusive interviews with government officials, including interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace, among others. In 2007 Baier had an exclusive sit-down with Vice President Cheney while traveling in Iraq. He also has provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, and was the only television reporter to travel with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
Legal challenge to baby-milk law
THE IMPLEMENTATION of new rules on the advertising of formula milk products has triggered a major row between the government and the infant food industry. New EU regulations that were due to come into force in January have been suspended in England, Wales and Northern Ireland after a legal challenge by manufacturers, who are seeking a judicial review of the situation. In Scotland, similar legal proceedings got under way last Friday, with the interim hearing expected this week. .
Study Spotlights 'Exercise-Friendly' Day-Care Centers
"Childhood obesity is an epidemic that threatens the future health of our nation. We know that about 57 percent of all 3- to 5-year-olds in the United States attend child-care centers, so it's important to understand what factors will encourage them to be more active, and, hopefully, less likely to become obese," study co-author Dianne Ward said in a statement. Ward is director of the intervention and policy division in the nutrition department at University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. In their study, Ward's team evaluated the physical activity levels of children at 20 child-care centers in North Carolina. They found that children did more moderate and vigorous physical activity if the child-care center: had more portable play equipment, such as balls, jump ropes, hula hoops and riding toys; offered more opportunities for indoor and outdoor active play; and provided physical activity training and education for staff and students.
Tarsands 'most destructive project on Earth': report
The more oil we make, the less energy we have. As a country with a cold climate that has spent the last 20 years converting to natural gas as a means of heating our homes, we need need to stop and think about this for a minute. When we have run out of natural gas, all the money we are making from the tarsands is not going to do us any good at all. .
Some say plant prefers undocumented workers
Illegal immigrants say it's easy to get a job at House of Raeford Farms. Of 52 current and former Hispanic workers at House of Raeford who spoke to The Charlotte Observer about their legal status, 42 said they were in the country illegally. The company says it hires a high percentage of Hispanic workers. Company officials, though, say they don't hire illegal immigrants knowingly. But five current and former House of Raeford supervisors and human resources administrators, including two who were involved in hiring, said some of the company's managers know they employ undocumented workers. "If immigration came and looked at our files, they'd take half the plant," said Caitlyn Davis, a former Greenville plant human-resources employee. Former Greenville supervisors said the company prefers undocumented workers because they are less likely to question working conditions for fear of losing their jobs or being deported.
Tending to cycling's emergencies
Slipstream's team doctor Prentice Steffen received his first race emergency call of the season early this year while at the Tour of Qatar. In the fifth stage, the team's lead-out train went down when Swede Magnus Backstedt clipped a wheel in the final kilometre and fell, taking down his team-mates Chris Sutton and Julian Dean. Steffen, who was in the second caravan car, was on the scene quickly, and was able to make sure the riders received the proper care. With his riders on the tarmac in agony, Steffen swiftly put the skills he's honed during his years of emergency medicine practice. "In part, it proved why it's good to have a team doctor at the race. If I hadn't been there, he'd have been hauled off to some local hospital and who knows how long it would have been before he was treated," Steffen said.
Determined to be svelte by summer?
If you want to lose weight and shape up before summer, there's still time, nutrition experts say. By Easter, which is March 23, you could drop 5 pounds or more and lose some of your belly fat, which means your pants and jeans would fit better. .
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