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Some psychologists argue that universal PPD screening misses the point because the greatest risk factor for postpartum depression is not giving birth, in fact, but previous depression. Women develop depression at the same rate whether or not they have given birth, according to Stony Brook University psychology professor Marci Lobel. "Women who have been healthy all their lives, who haven't suffered lots of anxiety and depressive symptoms, are unlikely to have problems in the postpartum period - not even close to likely," says Michael O'Hara, a University of Iowa professor of psychology. Further, say experts, while pregnancy hormones...
Given the generally higher incidence of obesity, hypertension and other lifestyle ills among African Americans, the church is in a powerful position to do a lot of good. In the 1990s, Marci Campbell, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, helped launch a four-year trial called North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health. The project signed up 50 churches with a goal of helping the 2,500 parishioners eat better, exercise more and generally improve their fitness. The measures taken included having pastors preach health in their sermons and getting churches to serve healthier foods...
...FLDS was designed to be ruled by one man. "Essentially, every member belonging to the group is trained to look up to the leader, one man, the patriarch," says Marci Hamilton, Yeshiva University law professor, author and expert on cults. "Effectively with Warren in jail there is instability, no leader, no access." In a community that is "bred to be obedient to the nth degree" Jeffs' absence is a destabilizing force, Hamilton says...
...habit ofwriting letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund--and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci; at Coca-Cola, for a cousin. It didn't help that McCall was slow to answer the charges, other than to say he wasn't asking for special treatment. But he sent aides to the state archives to scoop up boxes of formerly public letters that hesaid had been released...
...habit ofwriting letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund - and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci; at Coca-Cola, for a cousin. It didn't help that McCall was slow to answer the charges, other than to say he wasn't asking for special treatment. But he sent aides to the state archives to scoop up boxes of formerly public letters that he said had been...