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This article discusses the declining number of childhood obesity incidence in the U.S., Australia, France Switzerland, Sweden and New Zealand. Some social scientists proposed that the obesity rates have reached a plateau to explain the decline in rates. However, it explains that the obesity rate is still higher than in the 1960s and 1970s. Some researchers contend that the data used to produce conclusions leading to the decline in obesity rate are flawed.

The article discusses the state of Internet domain-name system. It reports that there has been a renewed interest in the use of numbers as domain names. In Australia a group plans to convert the 100.com site into a search engine that will give 100 significant results. In Aspen, Colorado a researcher is said to have spent U.S. $1 million for a scheme that is yet to be given a name. According to Ward Hanson of the Stanford Institute for Economic Research, there is attractiveness in numbers but one will have to create meaning around it.