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But researchers hope to change all that with a new set of guidelines to promote healthier eating habits in American children and stem the rising levels of obesity. Today, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) -- part of the National Academy of Sciences -- released new guidelines in an attempt to pearl jewelry change what schools serve for breakfast and lunch.

"What you really will see is the change in nutrient needs," said Mary Jo Tuckwell, a consultant for the food services group inTeam Associates in Ashland, Wis., and a member of the committee that wrote the guidelines. "Instead of targeting nutrients, we're really focusing on foods."

Several guidelines, as doctors have recommended for years, suggest adding more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to the menu.

But perhaps one of the biggest changes -- and one that is supported by both child nutritionists and a celebrity chef -- is an emphasis on adding new equipment and infrastructure to school kitchens to speed the changes along.

British TV chef Jamie Oliver told ABC News through a representative that the largest change schools could make to biwa pearl  improve menus was to "teach nutrition services staff how to cook freshly prepared meals." Oliver said this would require training, better ways of storing fresh food, and in many cases adding equipment and facilities.
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In early 2010, Oliver will begin starring in "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," a show on ABC where he will remake the school lunch menu in Huntington, W. Va. The British chef had previously embarked on a project in the United Kingdom where he remade the meals at a school there to make them healthier.

Oliver had already pushed for people to learn to cook more nutritious meals at home. Taking the issue to the schools, he said, would make a big difference.

"Children are getting diabetes, heart disease, all sorts of diseases that only used to show up in adults, because of the food they are eating," said Oliver. "We can influence this in a massive way by improving at least one daily meal, school lunch."

Researchers backed that assertion.

"One of the ways in which we can stem the tide of obesity is to change what is happening in schools," said Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at Cooper University Hospital. "Once that becomes the norm, we can actually change the eating habits of kids and teens."

She said that just 10 servings of a nutritious food can lead children to change their diets.

"If you offer healthy options enough, then that becomes the preferred option and kids do incorporate healthy eating into their habits," said Winter. "That is also what they're going to choose as they get older, and they will not select items that will land them in fast food environments, for example.

"I think there is an opportunity in children to change their palate. School has taken on a role that goes beyond just education."

Authors of the guidelines said akoya pearl lifelong habits were among their goals.

"Studies have shown students may take multiple times to be exposed to something, but with those [exposures] they can…be more receptive to greater variety in the diet," said Helen Jensen, a professor of economics at Iowa State University and one of the members of the committee that wrote the new guidelines.

The indictment of a New York billionaire for allegedly operating the largest ever insider trading scheme involving a hedge fund last week, is a signal that regulators are taking a more aggressive tack in hunting down illegal activity on Wall Street, former SEC officials say.
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Robert Khuzami, Director of pearl jewelry Enforcement at the SEC, speaks at a press conference where he announced charges against hedge fund managers, Fortune 500 executives, and a management consulting director for participating in insider trading schemes, at the U.S. Attorney's office in this Oct. 2009 file photo in New York City. The defendants in the case include Raj Rajaratnam, inset, the managing director of Galleon Management, LLC, and a portfolio manager for Galleon Technology Offshore, Ltd. The indictment of the New York billionaire for allegedly operating the largest ever insider trading scheme involving a hedge fund last week, is a signal that regulators are taking a more aggressive tack in hunting down illegal activity on Wall Street, according to former SEC officials. Collapse
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Raj Rajaratnam, head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, along with five others stand accused by prosecutors and the SEC of earning more than $25 million in profits by using illegally obtained information to make trades of stock in companies, including Google Inc., Clearwire Corp., and Hilton Hotels Corp., court documents show. The Sri Lanka-born Rajaratnam, who established Galleon in 1997, is free on $100 million bail and his travel is restricted to within 110 miles of New York City.

Federal prosecutors leveled a number of charges against Rajaratnam, including securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Jim Walden, an attorney for Rajaratnam, said his client is biwa pearl innocent, the Associated Press reported.
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The tactics used to build this case – including the use of undercover informants and wire taps show the SEC, still reeling from its failure to detect massive fraud in the Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford scandals, is going to new lengths to uncover criminal activity on Wall Street.

"This is consistent with the overall more aggressive posture that the SEC is taking," said Michael MacPhail a former SEC branch chief who is now a partner at Denver-based Holme Roberts & Owen. "It looks like they had an informant that was helping the government to gather evidence against these people. And for the SEC to be quoting conversations and things like that... that could be a departure from the way the SEC used to do business."

This case marks the first time court-authorized wiretaps were used in a hedge fund case. Experts say the tactics used in this investigation may be a harbinger of things to come under the watch of new SEC enforcement chief Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor who took over the post in February.
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"As somebody who's involved in the  securities business, we've been waiting a while now for this to happen. I tell clients who've done anything wrong... the SEC is going to be really difficult and really tough, and they're going to take no prisoners," said one former SEC attorney, who now represents clients in enforcement cases.

As first-time home buyers scramble to take advantage of the housing credit that expires Nov. 30, Congress today discussed options to extend the tax credit and offer it to a wider range of Americans.
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The White House unveils a new plan to pearl jewelry help those with mortgage problems.

Eight months after the administration introduced its plan to help spur the weak housing market, home sales have jumped. First-time buyer home sales are up 25 percent from last year and now account for 50 percent of all sales, according to the National Association of Realtors. Existing home sales rose for four months in a row for the first time in five years, thanks to the government incentive and relatively low mortgage rates.

But more help is needed, many homeowners say.

Leslee Ramos purchased a three-bedroom townhouse in Malibu Bay, Fla., three years ago for $255,000. Since then, her property's value has sunk to $121,000 and Ramos, who lost her job in 2007, is afraid she will go into foreclosure.
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"I'm not very optimistic," Ramos said. "I've tried everything but in the past there've been all these programs, but nothing's helped. Right now, I'm so far behind I'm worried the bank is going to foreclose on my property."

Ramos has since found employment but her biwa pearl struggles caused her to fall behind in her mortgage payments, which makes getting credit a real problem.

She won't be helped by the Obama administration's new plan, announced Monday, to help state agencies provide new mortgages to jumpstart the housing market for low to moderate income first-time home buyers.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will provide credit lines, backstopped by the federal government, with the aim to provide loans at lower rates than other banks. No price tag was given for the program, although the Treasury Department said it would help "hundreds of thousands" of homebuyers.

"There are many communities that are suffering because they have a large number of vacant properties," said Susan Dewey, president of the National Council of State Housing Agencies, which worked with the administration on the program. "This plan will really help states get first-time homebuyers in the right way, the old fashioned way. ... And we'll make sure that they're there for the long run."

But the program has its fair share of akoya pearl skeptics.

"State and local housing finance administrations provide a lot of assistance where it's needed but we shouldn't be fooled into thinking this will help hundreds of thousands of people very quickly," said Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in economic policy. "It's more like tens of thousands and slowly."

A hot dog on a stick -- encrusted in French Fries? Or, perhaps, a peanut butter, banana and bacon donut? Do these offerings sound tasty, or just too ridiculous? Regardless, they're just a couple of the creations that define what some have termed the "gross-food movement."
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The phrase comes from Gourmet magazine, in an article published in June.

"The Gross-Food Movement, as I hereby christen it, is a grassroots embrace of all things deep-fried, bacon-wrapped, and cheese-slathered," wrote Robert Ashley in the article.

Jessica Amason, author of the blog and book, "This Is Why You're Fat," noticed a trend in crazy food items and developed the website around the idea. The book will be released on Oct. 27, and it goes into more depth than the blog, including recipes and stories from the creators of these items.
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"The items are really disgusting, enticing and hilarious," said Amason. "And people actually take the biwa pearl time and energy to make these things.

"It made sense that there be a one-stop-shop site for all of these gross items where users could submit their own [food creations]," she added. "The title was sort of just a cheeky joke."

Cheeky works: thisiswhyyourefat.com got a millon clicks in the first 24 hours after the site launched on Feb. 9. Some of the most deadly (or tasty) items include the "Deep Fried Brat Loaf," "French Fry-Encased Hot Dog on a Stick," and "Bacon Chocolate Cake."

One of the key attributes of the gross-food movement is size -- typically, the more, the better.

"Throughout most of human history, calories were scarce and hard to get," said Dr. David Katz, director of Medical Studies in Public Health at Yale University. "It's a new thing that we find ourselves in a akoya pearl world where physical activity is scarce and calories are unavoidable."

The following pages feature seven of the "grossest" foods that can be found on the blog "This Is Why You're Fat."

If Richard Heene has become the star of his own reality show centered on what is now believed to be a hoax involving his 6-year-old son and a runaway helium balloon, his wife, Mayumi Heene, has clearly taken the supporting role.
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"She's the rock for Richard. She's a saint. I would put her up for sainthood for putting up with Richard," Richard Heene's former business partner Barbara Slusser told ABCNews.com. "She'll wear orange and go to jail with him."

Like any good supporting actress, Mayumi Heene seems to be doing everything to back up her husband, even to pearl jewelry her own detriment.

Slusser, who worked with Richard Heene on his "Psyience Detectives" Web show and said she became good friends with the Fort Collins, Colo., family until his temper finally drove her away last year, said his wife's Japanese background has kept her in a subservient relationship with her husband and three boys. "She's a highly intelligent woman, a lovely soul. Man, she's gotten herself into a situation with Richard and the kids," Slusser said. "Whatever he says goes. She's basically his slave.
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"She's from Japan. She told me stories about her life in biwa pearl Japan with her father. He was very overbearing and abusive. She came over here to be an actress," Slusser said. "Who does she meet? Richard Heene. They met in acting school when she could barely speak English. He wowed her. She kind of went from the frying pan to the fire."

Lee Christian, Mayumi Heene's lawyer, said the accounts given by Slusser and others indicate that the woman should not be accused of being a co-conspirator in any alleged hoax.

"I can't comment on the specific allegations here, but if those statements are indeed true, then the district attorney needs to seriously think about whether to charge Mrs. Heene in this case," Christian said.

David Lane, the attorney representing Richard Heene, declined to comment on the family's relationships.

"I'm not their marriage counselor, and I'm not their priest," he said. "I'm Richard's defense attorney, so I can akoya pearl only comment on the charges."

Another former family friend and business partner, Scott Stevens, echoed Slusser's assessment of the dynamics in the Heene household.

"It's a cultural thing, and he leveraged that knowledge," Stevens said. "He believed that Asian women can be subservient, and that's what he wanted. But it takes two to tango, and she was with him for more than a decade. Every day that was the dynamic in play."

Stevens said he broke with Richard Heene about a year ago "over ethic concerns -- storm chasing was part of it. But it was how he treated his wife, financial dealings, so many red flags that it was a forest."