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...Your article neglected to highlight the significance of breastfeeding, which has been shown in several studies to help protect mothers against breast cancer. For every 12 months a woman breastfeeds, her risk of breast cancer decreases by 4.3%. Mothers in many societies breastfeed each child for up to five years. The Western pattern of early weaning or artificial feeding correlates with higher breast-cancer incidence; sadly, these practices are spreading to the developing world. Key strategies for combating breast cancer worldwide will be promotion of the current World Health Organisation recommendation that mothers breastfeed for two years or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...third theft victim is a friend of who lives in DeWolfe, a detail he said interested the HUPD officer when he alerted her to the connection. Catalano advised students to be more conscious of securing their laptops, even in their dorm rooms. “The best way to protect your laptop is to always lock your office or residence when leaving, even for a moment,” he wrote “You should also explore options to secure your laptop to your desktop.” “Most importantly, never leave your laptop unattended...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Laptop Thefts Strike River | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...Outlook Does all this mean that the only way to stop the cycle of catastrophic forest fires is to change the way Americans live in the West? Probably - but the transition will be painful. Population growth in the affected areas has implicitly been supported by federal policies that protect private homes even if they're built in risky areas. This, in turn, has caused the Forest Service - which is supposed to perform a range of wilderness functions - to become largely a firefighting agency, devoting nearly half its budget to that one job. That has caught the eye of Congress, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From TIME's Archive: The Great California Fires | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...zones are "gambling with high stakes - and right now many of them are losing." One answer might be to make clear to those who choose to build in the highest-risk areas that they are effectively on their own - a message the insurance industry, which has grown reluctant to protect exposed properties, is communicating to Western home-owners. But while it's easy to see that logic - and to point fingers at the very victims of the fires - this week it's impossible not to focus more on the terror and worry of those whose homes are at risk, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From TIME's Archive: The Great California Fires | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Bolivia's unloved," says Yuly Perez, Vice-President of the National Organization for the Emancipation of Women in a State of Prostitution (ONAEM in its Spanish initials), the sex workers' union. "We are hated by a society that uses us regularly, and ignored by institutions obligated to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitutes Strike in Bolivia | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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