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...Think about your passions," says Marc Freedman, president of Civic Ventures, a San Francisco educational nonprofit that helps older Americans make fuller use of their talents. "Now is the time to go back to earlier dreams and try to make them reality...
...role would say it’s acceptable,” said Donald Berwick, president of the Boston-based nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement...
...measure it: in total numbers, the rate at which women choose abortion or the percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of abortions dropped 18%, from an estimated 1.6 million a year to 1.3 million, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that both sides of the debate rely on for data. Twelve years ago, about 27 women out of every 1,000 of childbearing age had had an abortion; by 2000, the number fell to just over 21. And whereas 28% of those who found themselves pregnant...
...they are clinically depressed. The effect is potentially so significant that the medical profession has begun to focus serious attention and resources on trying to understand what's going on. At a national conference in Washington in November, Evans served as co-chairman of a meeting, sponsored by the nonprofit Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), to get a better handle on how widespread the problem is. For two days, experts in cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, along with patient advocates, listened to the evidence linking depression with one illness after another...
...with an interpreter and fixers to deal with glitches. With Lost World, we paid $1,890 each (not counting airfare) for 14 days inclusive of food, transportation and four hotel nights. But prices vary depending on where you go and how many people are in the group. A worthy nonprofit organization, the Wild Salmon Center (at wildsalmoncenter.org) based in Portland, Oregon, has been conducting fishing and scientific expeditions to Kamchatka for years...