Oddly Enough  |  Italy"The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to bring him night-vision goggles and climbing equipment with which to escape," a National Police statement said.The prisoner, named as Giulio B., 52, was in jail after being caught piloting a seaplane taking 200 kg (440 pounds) of cocaine from Mauritania to the Canaries.Police said they had arrested three people outside the jail who were preparing the escape, and had intercepted a package sent from Italy containing the balloon, night-vision goggles and climbing gear.House searches on Grand Canary island had also uncovered a tent and a telephoto lens the gang had used to observe security details at the jail from a hill 600 meters away, as well as plans drawn by the prisoner.The plan was for Giulio B. Each child's pediatrician or nurse practitioner was also surveyed.In the latest issue of Pediatrics, Taveras and colleagues report that the average score on the parent confidence survey was 13 (the lowest possible score was 0 and the highest possible score was 24). MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker's plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-meter-long zeppelin. Taveras and colleagues asked 446 parents of overweight children how confident they felt about making the following changes: limiting television viewing, removing TVs from children's bedrooms, cutting back on fast food, reducing intake of sugary drinks, increasing physical activity, and improving the family's overall eating habits.The children ranged in age from 2 to 12 years. HealthHowever, the researchers also found that having the child's doctor or nurse inquire about the parents' confidence level can actually help to increase it.Theorizing that parents with higher self-confidence would be more likely to take on the challenge of changing a child's unhealthy behavior, Dr Elsie M. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents don't have enough self-confidence to implement and enforce changes in their child's behavior that will reduce the child's risk of obesity, researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston have found. But theunit would still need a broad restructuring, he added.($1=.7133 Euro)(Reporting by Eva Kuehnen and Alexander Huebner; editing bySimon Jessop) Bankruptcy.

Karstadt's business was going well and had recorded profitsin May, June and probably also in July, Weidmann said. A spokesman for administrator Klaus Hubert Goerg said themoney should be transferred by the end of next week. German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reportedthat Arcandor's department store business, Karstadt, had a goodchance of surviving, quoting Rolf Weidmann, who is also part ofthe insolvency administration and in charge of Karstadt. [ID:nLU621018] However, one of the printing companies on Friday stillrefused to hand over the catalogues saying it had not been paidyet.

Earlier this week, Quelle managed to secure a 50 millioneuro ($70.10 million) rescue aid loan from the German governmentwhich it needs to pay for its winter season mail order catalogue-- crucial for its future business. "We will present first key points of a restructuring programstill in July," he told the paper, adding that drastic measureswould have to be taken, which could also involve job cuts. Bankruptcy However, it would not be possible to preserve Quelle in itscurrent form, Joerg Nerlich, who is part of the insolvencyadministration for Arcandor, was quoted as saying bySueddeutsche Zeitung in an article to be published on Saturday. FRANKFURT, July 3 (Reuters) - The mail order unit ofinsolvent German retailer Arcandor (AROG.DE), Quelle, is alreadyattracting interest from potential buyers, the administrator incharge of Quelle told German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. According to a 2009 Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation report issuedrecently alcohol-related traffic crashes cost Americans nearly $130 billiondollars.MADD's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving includes support for highvisibility enforcement - highly publicized, highly visible and frequentsobriety checkpoints, ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk drivers,development of advanced technologies that would not interfere with the generalpublic but rather stop only those driving drunk (.08+ BAC), as well asgrassroots support for all of the above.Eleven states now call for ignitioninterlocks for all convicted drunk drivers.SOURCEMothers Against Drunk DrivingMisty Moyse of MADD, +1-469-420-4558. "We applaud House Transportation andInfrastructure Chairman Jim Oberstar and Ranking Member John Mica as well asHighways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Peter DeFazio and Ranking MemberJim Duncan as they introduced legislation that includes bold initiatives thatwill have a dramatic impact on highway safety in America," said Dean-Mooney. In November 1991, Mike Dean --Laura's husband and father to their then 8-month-old-daughter -- died on aTexas highway in a drunk driving crash caused by an offender who had a bloodalcohol concentration of .34, more than four times the illegal drunk drivinglevel and no prior DWI convictions.Nationally, MADD thanks Members of Congress for including major provisions ofthe Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving in the House Committee version of thenext highway reauthorization bill.