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...many U.S. children are gender variant, although the National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that as many as 3 million American adults are. But studies suggest that gender-variant adolescents are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide than other teens. Now, increasingly, hormone treatments that delay physical maturity are being seen as a lifesaving alternative for gender-variant kids, but the remedy is also generating medical and ethical questions about interfering with the natural development process. The treatment--a series of injections to interrupt the brain cascade that launches puberty by regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH...
...Producers deny misleading the actor and his family. The offending scene is tastefully portrayed, they say, and crucial to the plot. Still, Paramount Vantage, the film's distributor, is taking the security fears seriously. Having dispatched a retired CIA operative to Afghanistan to assess the dangers, it decided to delay the film's U.S. release by six weeks, allowing time to evacuate its child stars to the United Arab Emirates...
...British government passed an advisory in March this year encouraging ship recycling in the UK - citing concerns that the work would otherwise go to unregulated docks in the developing world - that the council relented. In late October, it granted Able UK permission to recycle the ships, but the delay has cost the firm a contract for a further nine James River Fleet vessels, and Friends of the Earth is considering appealing the decision on the remaining four...
...programs and initiatives and things come and go during my time at Harvard, and this one to me seems singularly well conceived and thought-out,” Cabot House sophomore advising coordinator Myles G. Osborne said. After the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last year to delay concentration choice, some College officials worried that the old advising system would be inadequate for sophomores who, for the first time, would enter Houses without having chosen a field of study. Under the old system, undergradutes picked a major by the end of freshman year. So far, the system has received...
...programs and initiatives and things come and go during my time at Harvard, and this one to me seems singularly well conceived and thought-out,” Cabot House sophomore advising coordinator Myles G. Osborne said. After the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last year to delay concentration choice, some College officials worried that the old advising system would be inadequate for sophomores who, for the first time, would enter Houses without having chosen a field of study. Under the old system, undergradutes picked a major by the end of freshman year. So far, the system has received...