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...physical violence has doubled within a generation, from 5% in the 1970s to 10% today. "The threshold has been lowered substantially," says Werner Ebner, a former teacher in the town of Riederich in southern Germany. "Kids resort to physical violence much more readily." In late November in South Wales, cancer surviver Bianca Powell, 12, suffered minor burns when a bully set fire to her hair, which had just grown back after four years of chemotherapy. That same month, the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations, a British national education charity, released results of a survey that reflects growing concerns about...
Health experts have told us for years that the Mediterranean diet, and olive oil in particular, could help us live longer by reducing the risk of cancer and other diseases. Now a team from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago appears to have identified precisely how olive oil helps fight one of the deadliest scourges: breast cancer. The researchers tested the effect of oleic acid - a monounsaturated fatty acid found principally in olive oil - on breast cancer cells. Their findings, published online by the Annals of Oncology, show that oleic acid cuts levels of a cancer-causing...
DIED. JAY SCHULBERG, 65, creator of such memorable ad campaigns as American Express's "Don't leave home without it" and the hugely successful ads for the milk industry featuring celebrities sporting milk mustaches; of pancreatic cancer; in Doylestown, Pa. As chief creative officer of Bozell Worldwide, he overruled a pitch to use an upside-down cow to sell milk, opting instead to decorate Lauren Bacall, Naomi Campbell, Pete Sampras and others with frothy milk mustaches in ads that generated worldwide publicity and spawned a 1998 best seller, The Milk Mustache Book, which he co-wrote...
...that point Hopkins, a renowned cancer researcher who last year was inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, had left the conference room. She said she was concerned that it would be “rude” to get up midway through Summers’ speech, but “it was just too upsetting” for her to stay...
Vaghar allegedly told another one of her victims, who would be identified only as Alison M., that she could not vacate the apartment because her mother had been hospitalized for cancer treatment...