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...peanuts than ever before. "I have never seen anything like this," says Bevan, a 25-year teaching veteran whose 489-student elementary school includes seven with peanut allergies this year. "These allergies came out of nowhere." To protect vulnerable students, Craneville and many other schools are being forced to establish what educators are calling "peanut-free zones" - areas in the cafeteria and throughout the school where nut products are banned; some schools are going nut-free altogether. In some districts, like Ladue in St. Louis, Mo. - which includes about half a dozen peanut-free schools - teachers must learn...
...cases per 100,000 people in the U.S.--a troublingly high number--and that 14% of these occurred in people with no documented history of a hospital stay. Because the CDC does not require physicians to report MRSA cases outside hospital settings, this report is the first to establish how prevalent the infections are, and, says Monina Klevens, an epidemiologist at the CDC, "It will be a baseline against which we can compare future numbers...
...working alone, taking on the world with a great vision of what he can do, but without a lot of overt backing." If that bothers Moreno-Ocampo, he doesn't show it. Finishing his coffee, he tells me that the ICC is helping to establish a new approach to international relations, in which states interact "on the basis of laws, not on the concept of friends and enemies. There are still criminals, but no enemies. That is the idea." Moreno-Ocampo is working to make the idea real...
...ripple effect that the addiction has on the community may eventually force gambling towns (and soon-to-be gambling towns) to establish and fund treatment programs. A problem gambler can negatively affect 10 to 17 people by borrowing money, underperforming at work, straining family relations, stealing and committing suicide, according to Casino Watch, a U.S.-based antigambling group. A 2003 study conducted by the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention found that gambling-related financial problems were a factor in more than one out of four Hong Kong suicides...
...chose a partner. By the end of the night, she said, he had danced with “every woman over the age of 50” in the Costa Rica town. Fienning died on July 30. The cause of death was suicide. Fienning’s family has established a memorial fund at the First Presbyterian Church in Sumter to support the local Boy Scout Troop 86—Fienning was an Eagle scout—or the church’s music fund. According to Fienning’s father, Charles E. Fienning...