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Twenty-three-year-old Linda Vaghar was also ordered to repay all of her victims a total of $17,175 in restitution, and she is barred from leaving the state of Massachusetts until the payments are made, said Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Melissa Sherman. The court also ordered Vaghar to undergo treatment for substance abuse and a mental health evaluation...
...question, the way boomers have parented has contributed to new practices. "Our mothers defined good family life by cleaning the house, washing our clothes and making elaborate holiday meals," says Linda Dunlap, chair of the psychology department at Marist College. "We define it as connection, conversation and relaxation with our kids...
Sympathy for pedophiles and rapists is, understandably, in short supply ("If I could find a cage and put them all in, that would be fine," says Sjodin's mother Linda Walker), but the growing movement to limit where past offenders can live, work or even set foot has begun to draw increasing criticism from civil-liberties groups, sex-abuse experts and even some child advocates. Reports of rape and attempted rape have plummeted some 70% since the early 1990s, and reconviction rates of child molesters are estimated at 13%, compared with 47% for all non-sex criminals. Some critics question...
...heart abnormalities. The latest research, for example, shows that in some people, the calcium is spread thinly throughout the coronary arteries, while in others it is clumped in larger lesions. Which is worse? Doctors still aren't sure, but they are developing some interesting theories. Dr. Linda Demer, a cardiologist at UCLA who has been studying coronary calcium for 15 years, believes that having many small calcium deposits may be worse than having fewer larger ones. Her work suggests that it is not the total amount of calcium that makes vessels vulnerable but rather the way the deposits are anchored...
...been reported to them by a police officer, a physician, a relative or any other concerned citizen. As a last resort, some adult children feel compelled to report their own parents. (Six states allow anonymous reporting.) Some complain that their parents' doctors are too timid about intervention. Linda Bryant, an administrative assistant in Orlando, Fla., was incensed when an eye doctor told her 76-year-old father that he was fine to drive. "I wrote the doctor," she says, "that if and when the accident happened, I'd send the victims to his doorstep as his liability...