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...have great impact. Researchers at the University of Georgia last month published a study of 641 adolescents, ages 11 to 16, some of whom carried the short allele form of the gene 5-HTTLPR - a genetic condition found in about 40% of the general population and long associated with low self-control, binge drinking and substance use. Half of the participants were randomly enrolled in drug prevention programs. After five years, those participants with 5-HTTLPR who were enrolled in a prevention program were no more likely than their counterparts in the comparison group, without the gene, to have engaged...
...Motherisk Program for the study of antenatal drugs, saw an opportunity to address divided concerns about the medication. Collaborating with a large HMO in Israel, he and his multinational colleagues studied metoclopramide use in pregnant women and its association with babies' health outcomes - specifically, birth defects, premature birth, low birth weight, Apgar score (which provides an immediate measure of a baby's physical condition at birth) and infant death...
Also included in the House bill, as expected, is a requirement that employers provide health benefits to their workers, although the precise shape of that mandate is unclear. The smallest, low-wage firms would be exempted from that requirement, and the three House chairmen anticipate providing a new small-business tax credit to help others. It also includes a "pay or play" provision: those businesses that do not provide benefits would be forced to pay some percentage of their payroll - 5% or 6% is being talked about - into a fund for the uninsured. And it would prohibit insurers from discriminating...
...round of protests were low-key in the beginning, but tensions increased as the weeks passed. Indigenous demonstrators began blocking roads and rivers, as well as the northern oil pipeline. The pipeline was closed in late April and the state oil company announced it was losing nearly $120,000 daily. Oil fields in the northern jungle were closed in early June. This was, apparently, one of the reasons that led to the fatal decision to order police officers to open roads and the remove protesters from the pipeline. Garcia has been talking about making Peru an oil and gas superpower...
...Angola and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso. Like Bongo, all have denied any wrongdoing. But Bongo was one of the greediest and, coming to power at 31 in 1967, just seven years after Gabon's independence, one of the first. As such, he set and maintained the catastrophically low standard for African leadership that would ensure that a continent bursting with natural resources would remain the poorest and most war-ravaged place on earth for the ensuing four decades...