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...grandmother's house. My mother, a lone parent, couldn't get a mortgage simply because she was a woman, even though she had a well-paid job. When I qualified as a lawyer in the U.K. three decades ago, women in the legal profession still had to overcome open prejudice and discrimination. So when we examine the position of women across the Middle East, it's important not to despair - or forget our own past...
...We’ve come back a lot this year,” Stone said. “[The Harvard skaters] kept the game very simple. They used the people that were open...
...reduction was maintained for at least six months. A 2005 study of a slightly more intensive program, Drinkers Check-up, found a 45% to 55% drop maintained for a year, depending on how drinking was measured. Both sites are free, do not collect identifiable personal information and are open for public use. And the outcomes are comparable to those achieved with brief face-to-face counseling. (See TIME's top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Insurance Exchanges Perhaps the least understood aspect of federal health reform is how private insurance would be sold on the open market if and when the legislation becomes law. Under the Senate bill, states would be responsible for creating and running new insurance marketplaces, also known as exchanges. There, individuals and small businesses would purchase private health insurance, receiving federal subsidies if they qualified. The House bill would establish a national exchange, which states could opt out of if they had the capacity to run their...
...Yemen, al-Qaeda can coordinate with Red Sea pirates operating from Somalia and eventually reach the Suez Canal - or launch attacks in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf countries. "Anyone who has been to Yemen knows that automatic arms, explosives, even rockets are sold out in the open - on street corners - often by people who make no secret of their Islamist affinities," says a French counterterrorism official. "It's been this enormous crossroads for people traveling from one jihad, like Iraq or Afghanistan, to another one, like Somalia...