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New-York Presbyterian has a taken a giant step forward in curtailing America's childhood obesity problem. The hospital has just opened a Center for Adolescent for Bariatric Surgery at its Morgan's Stanley's Children's Hospital. In doing so, this New York hospital powerhouse will be one of the first in the country to offer this procedure, also known as gastric banding, to kids as young as 14. So far six teens have undergone the surgery and four more are planned before the end of the year. Up to 40 more kids are currently enrolled in a weight-loss program to become eligible to go under the knife this spring. more ›

Scratchy voiced Alan Light and John Rollins (Gothamist doesn't know anything about Rollins' voice, only Light's because he'dcomment on ANYTHING on VH1) bring a new music magazine offering with Tracks, oriented to more adult readers. The Times' David Carr looks at this venture, which seems to follow the music industry's realization that older consumers will buy, versus download, music, but the older consumers are simply not being spoken to. One doubtful industry expert, wondering if there are adults obsessive enough to shell out some change for a magazine about the music they like, says, "My experience has been that the people who like to listen to Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins do not have music as a primary interest." Well, duh. If any magazine had a editorial mission to simply cover Phil Collins, it would only be good as a money laundering scheme. But this sounds just like the original business plan for VH1, so expect a couple issues down the road for it to be all about the 80s. Or the Fabulous Life of Sharon Osbourne. more ›

, if not for the stirring, symphonic music, then for the Darcy and James Iha drama. [Jake, 6:59am]: James Iha always struck me as a bastardized version of Matte Mirienne.
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