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...retail-consulting firm, 50.1% of parents plan on cutting back on gifts to each other this year. That figure is up from 44.4% last year, a surprising jump considering that the U.S. was in the depths of the financial crisis during the previous holiday season. "Parents want to maintain gift-spending levels for their kids, so they are showing more willingness to trim on each other," says Britt Beemer, founder and chairman of America's Research Group...
...separate age- and time-based screening protocols - from screening women ages 49 to 69 every year and every two years, for example, to screening only women ages 60 to 69 every year and every two years as well. By switching from annual to biennial exams, these women would maintain 85% of the screenings' benefit in reducing breast-cancer death, while cutting risks from the test...
Neither team could maintain a lead for the first two extra five-minute periods, but it looked like William & Mary had finally grabbed the advantage for good, when guard Sean McCurdy banked in a layup with four seconds to play, putting the Tribe...
...alike. Throughout the summer and fall, pro-choice Democrats have insisted that legislative fixes to prevent direct funding of abortion procedures had solved the problem. At the same time, however, most of their pro-life colleagues, as well as the influential U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), continued to maintain that funding problems still existed because federal subsidies to help people buy health insurance on a government-managed exchange could end up going to private insurance plans that covered abortions. (Read "How Abortion Could Imperil Health Care Reform...
...From a legal standpoint, it's difficult to understand how the Ministry of Justice can work out a draft bill that violates the Swiss constitution." That is one of the arguments that EXIT, Dignitas and other supporters of assisted suicide are vowing to use in their fight to maintain the existing law. "We will do all we can to combat this attempt at taking away our freedom," EXIT president Sobel vows. "If need be, we'll force a nationwide referendum." (Read more about Dignitas...