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...fears and activities to practice what she'd learned, "I felt more confident," she says, "like there was something I could do to manage the way I was feeling." She was guided by a psychologist who emailed her once a week (e-therapy may also include text messaging and access to private online forums). "Even though I never met her," Fogarty says, "I found her very understanding, perfectly accepting of how I felt." Though she sometimes longed for more frequent emails, in her own notes to the therapist, "I was able to write exactly what I wanted to say, rather...
...scope of the maternal mortality crisis is magnified by the fact that it's a crisis that can be solved. One of the largest contributors to maternal deaths in the developing world is unintended pregnancy. More than 200 million women would like to limit childbearing but have no access to safe, effective birth control. This results in 70 million to 80 million unintended pregnancies every year. Public-health experts estimate that almost half of all maternal deaths could be averted by universal access to contraceptives. The U.S., which should lead the way, has instead placed more roadblocks...
...scope of the maternal mortality crisis is magnified by the fact that it's a crisis that can be solved. One of the largest contributors to maternal deaths in the developing world is unintended pregnancy. More than 200 million women would like to limit childbearing but have no access to safe, effective birth control. This results in 70 million to 80 million unintended pregnancies every year. Public-health experts estimate that almost half of all maternal deaths could be averted by universal access to contraceptives. The U.S., which should lead the way, has instead placed more roadblocks...
...fisheries worldwide, researchers led by scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that countries that had effectively privatized their fish stock by doling out quotas to individual fishermen were half as likely to experience a collapse as those that did not. "The idea is that by securing access for individuals or select groups for a long period of time, they have an incentive to steward the resources," explains the study's lead author, Christopher Costello, a resource economist at U.C. Santa Barbara. "If they overharvest or destroy habitat today, they will have a less vibrant stock...
...Despite the rocky premiere, Flanzraich devoted himself to making On Harvard Time a campus success. During the summer of 2007, he aggressively recruited incoming freshmen to work on the show, using the social networking capabilities of Facebook to access potential staff members...