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Depending on the subject at hand, the day-to-day running of the worldwide Catholic Church can resemble either a sort of centralized sacred politburo or a loose confederation of autonomous dioceses. If you prefer a business model, it's top-down management vs. franchising. Though imperfect, these analogies can help address a lingering question in the wake of the Los Angeles archdiocese's record $660 million settlement with victims of clergy sex abuse: What is the Vatican's responsibility...
...women living alone in Delhi. The film is a colorful portrayal of the trials and tribulations that come with flying solo. One insight: Women in India must often live a double life to avoid unwanted attention. "Some had to lie to get out of the house. There was one [subject] who was divorced; she was constantly asked about what happened, where her husband was and had to keep making up stories about why he wasn't there," says Srinivasan. "They were just not comfortable giving out the whole truth because of how others might react. There are some people...
...diet is only one component of breast cancer prevention, and in their JAMA editorial, Gapstur and Khan call for further studies into the influence of a woman's overall physical lifestyle. "If you look at current literature on the subject, it suggests that overall energy balance - not just diet - plays a role in cancer recurrence," Gapstur says. And researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who ran the WHEL Study, are already planning to study how exercise and weight loss impact cancer prevention, according to co-author Rock...
When interviewing a Chinese source about a sensitive subject, I sometimes try to put them at ease by first chatting about a) their favorite food; b) China's breakneck-speed economic growth; or, best of all, c) their pride that Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Once the interviewee has expounded on a particular kind of tofu, or their son who's now studying international trade, or the prowess of China's table-tennis team, I segue to the real topic at hand. The strategy works surprisingly well...
...plans out her classes while traveling, though, Nora has already thought about how she’ll broach the subject of her achievement with her future classmates...