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...talk is never easy. It's not comfortable for anyone involved - parents are afraid of it, children are mortified by it - which is probably why the talk so often comes after the fact. In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents had had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or sexually transmitted diseases...
...previous years--but none in 2008 or 2009. "Since zinc arrived, we have had no deaths from diarrhea," Traoré says. Cradling her 10-month-old son outside Traoré's dispensary, Maimouna Bakayogo, 32, says she panicked when her baby developed stomach pains, diarrhea and fever. "I was really afraid," she says. "Then I remembered Moussa saying there was zinc in the village. I went to get some from him, and within one day, I saw a big difference. The baby looked much better...
...four decades, as a series of Australian firms calculated that the low-grade nickel wasn't worth extracting in such a remote area rife with shifting clan allegiances. But Ramu NiCo, the subsidiary of China Metallurgical Group that has developed the mine, thought it could succeed where others were afraid to try. In 2007, Ramu NiCo dispatched battalions of Chinese workers, who macheted their way through dense foliage and built a mirage-like Chinatown where elephant grass and kwila trees used to be. Today, in what was a malarial stretch of hills and valley, huge dormitories, offices and processing plants...
...parents were incredibly afraid of it when I first brought it up to them,ā€¯ he said. After Nauert graduated from Harvard last spring, he and Stallings, who had been together for six weeks at that point, drove from Cambridge to St. Louis and spent a difficult few days in his familyā€™s home. While the two were not engaged yet, it was clear that the seriousness of their commitment to each other bothered Nauertā€™s parents...
...Weā€™re not afraid of it being competition because we have a very unique business model that fits a very specific need for the public,ā€¯ said Finaleā€™s manager, Casey Eppskrier...