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Women who smoke and show signs of an alcohol problem are more likely to have been the victims of violence by an intimate partner, according to a study conducted by Harvard researchers and released earlier this week...
...study, which used data from written surveys given to 2,386 female medical patients in hospitals throughout Boston, found that a woman who smokes and has a drinking problem has a 33 percent likelihood of having been abused by her partner in the past year. Such a woman also has a 54 percent chance of having been abused during her lifetime, the study found...
...results showed that physicians who are already asking about smoking and drinking and not asking about partner violence might be missing it,” said lead author Megan R. Gerber, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance who is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
...failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused Kim Jong Il of allowing millions to die and made the United Nations a silent partner in the North Korean holocaust...
...World should be reading and mountain biking simultaneously. The President was supposed to have finished Tom Wolfe's critique of political correctness on college campuses months ago, so why was he hanging on to it now? White House aides were quick to put minds at ease. Bush's biking partner for the day, Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts of steamy sex-play-and had returned Bush's copy that day. Sources familiar with Bush's current bedside favorites say he is reading The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang...