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...Georgia. If that happens, Abkhaz officials say, blame the U.S. military advisers who will soon start training the Georgian army. An advance unit of U.S. Green Berets arrived in Georgia last week. The Georgians will mount a "full-scale attempt to solve the Abkhaz problem by force before the onset of autumn," says General Vladimir Arshba, Abkhazia's chief of general staff. They are engaged in "semi-covert mobilization" and menacing exercises, he says, and by the summer the first batch of Georgian troops should have finished U.S. training. If there is an attack, Arshba adds, "I do not exclude...
...what about those 12 and older, who make up nearly half of all juvenile sex-abuse victims? The states define the age of consent for sex differently. Most say it is 16, but some say 18. In Hawaii, it's 14. So are teenagers from the onset of puberty (usually about 13) to the age of sexual majority (usually 16) always victims when they have sex with someone older...
...molestation--imprecise figures made even more so by the molesters' incentive to shade the truth. "Certain stimuli early in life seem to fuse the ideas of childhood and sexual arousal," says Fran Ferder, a psychologist and Catholic nun who teaches theology and psychology at Seattle University. The early onset of the condition argues against the popular idea that priests who abuse kids are driven to the behavior by the Catholic Church's celibacy rules. Whether the church attracts existing pedophiles--who see it as a way to be close to the children they seek or, alternatively, to bury their troubling...
...haven’t even actually reached my 20s, but it’s not surprising that early quarter-life crisis onset would occur at Harvard. The people are stressed, competitive and selfish. It’s hard to know who’s a friend and who simply has an agenda. It’s hard to know if you’re taking advantage of all that the University offers, if you’re meeting parental expectations, if you’ve set your standards too high or not high enough...
That was the question on the table last week with news of the birth of the first baby ever bred to avoid the risk of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. There may be only a dozen families in the world that carry this particular gene mutation, which causes dementia and death, often by age 45. One 33-year-old woman knew all too well what the disease does to a brain--and a family. Her father died at 42; her sister began declining at 38 and within five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began...