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...Women's Health Seminar featured Angela Browne, Ph.D., author of When Battered Women Kill. Joining Browne on the panel were incest and child pornography survivor Claudia Martinez, who graduates this year from the Harvard Divinity School, and Linda Frazier, R.N., a health educator at the University Health Services...
Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez Patino never doubted her femininity until she arrived in Kobe, Japan, in 1985 to compete at the World University Games. Like all female athletes participating in international tournaments, she had to take a genetic sex-determination test, aimed at preventing men in drag from unfairly competing against women. Though Patino had passed such an exam in the past, she had forgotten to bring along proof. This time, to her amazement, she failed. The first test had evidently been botched. Patino, though clearly a female anatomically, is, at a genetic level, just as clearly...
...kids drinking themselves into a stupor? Boredom, peer pressure, escape from psychological pain and wanting to feel good are the usual answers. Since most of their parents drink, teenagers tend to think of alcohol as a less threatening drug than cocaine or marijuana. Says White House drug czar Bob Martinez: "Adults often send a message to their kids that this is acceptable behavior. With marijuana, cocaine and heroin, there is no mixed message. With alcohol, there is." To David Anderson, a research professor at George Mason University's Center for Health Promotion, teenagers who indulge in binge drinking "delude themselves...
Cincinnati, which has made four trades in a month, got pitcher John Wetteland on Nov. 27 in a deal that sent Eric Davis to Los Angeles. Then, the Reds turned around and traded Wetteland to Montreal on Wednesday in a five-player swap that brought outfielder Dave Martinez to Cincinnati...
There is another fundamental bond at work: love. "We don't give a child to a family; we give a family to a child," says Mercedes Rosario de Martinez, founder of Colombia's Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Children. "This is not a business; it's total devotion to the children. Because of that, the world is a better place...