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...official statistics agencies produce are conservative estimates of probably the lowest level of child maltreatment," says Dr. Cathy Spatz Widom, a psychology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who specializes in the long-term effects of child abuse and is a lead author on one of the Lancet studies...
...come a long way, baby, since 1978. Uncloseted homosexuals occupy seats in Congress, state legislatures and city councils; as author and political strategist David Mixner notes, "almost every state has at least one openly gay or lesbian elected official, including Alabama, Montana and Oklahoma." The gay subculture is a hip harbinger of official culture and can boast its own nationwide cable network in Logo (two if you count Bravo!). Homocentric movies like Milk have replaced homophobic movies like Advise and Consent; and in TIME you read reviews like this instead of the 1962 review of Victim...
...looked at all sorts of biological markers that could potentially play a role in linking depression and heart disease," says Dr. Mary Whooley, an internist at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, and lead author of the new study. "We measured all of those, and found that they did not explain the association. All we needed to do was to ask the patient how much they were exercising to be able to explain the link...
...women also grew at a faster rate than the number awarded to men. But the most drastic difference between the genders was in the humanities: awards to women in these fields grew by 7 percent since 2003, while awards to men remained flat. Jaquelina C. Falkenheim, a co-author of the report, said in an interview yesterday that the “numbers for women have been going up—this is a new time trend that should be watched.” At Harvard, the picture is more mixed. Asian women outnumbered men at the Graduate School...
...fight may not be over. The law's author argues it would go into effect 30 days after being passed by the local parliament - with or without the governor's signature. (Indonesia's books are full of laws passed by local parliaments that local governments simply don't enforce.) "We have the power to make the laws and we need one to protect healthy people as much as we do the rights of those infected," says Manansang, who has only come across one case of "aggressive" behavior in HIV patients over the course of his 14 years working...