Word: household
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...just published Why Women Should Rule the World - part political memoir, part reported rhetoric, part feminist manifesto. Myers spoke with TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen about confronting Leon Panetta on her pay, why she won't endorse Hillary Clinton, and whether or not women rule her own household...
...Boston, they concluded that such suicides are not simply a call for help gone wrong, but that anorexics are genuinely determined to die when they attempt to kill themselves. Some of the disturbing means the nine patients profiled used included jumping in front of moving trains, ingesting dangerous household cleaners and setting oneself on fire. These patients also tended to isolate themselves before their suicide attempt, most likely in order to reduce the possibility they would receive life-saving help. "We established that these patients' death had little to do with their low body weight," says lead author Jill Holm...
...protocols and pomposity of royal life. He's been known to paint the town red and the air blue. He's cuddled kids with AIDS in Lesotho. And now he's taken keeping it real to a new level that's almost surreal: serving as a member of the Household Cavalry in Afghanistan's Helmand province...
...projects, in part because government estimates of housing demand made faulty assumptions. A divorced couple, for instance, was automatically calculated as demand for one additional home, though in reality the husband often moves back in with his parents, or two divorcés join each other in a single household. Moreover, young people in Spain tend to live with their parents until they're married, a result of an affordable-housing shortage amid the housing boom. It proved untrue, says García-Montalvo, "that smaller families automatically mean more houses...
...says the world's food stocks are at record lows. And as the food shortage takes a tighter grip, it could start exacting a political toll in more countries than just Pakistan. The threat is particularly sharp in developing countries where food routinely accounts for more than half of household spending, compared to 20% or less in rich countries. As Chaudhry says: Hungry people are not happy people...