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...Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...
...existing performers remain with their owners, as long as they guarantee proper care, but prevent any new bears, owls, monkeys and snakes from being smuggled out of the wild and turned into entertainers. With the government shutdown, however, and no alternative employment offered, both children and bears will suffer. "You don't know who to feel worse about," says animal activist Bahar Dutt. "The animals or their owners...
...psychological rebuilding process. Drug-treatment centers are usually run like a cross between boot camp and prison. Beds are scarce as addicts seek the meager resources available. In China, for example, the nearly 750 state-run rehab centers are filled to capacity; in Thailand the few recovery centers suffer from a chronic shortage of staff and beds. While the most powerful tools for fighting addiction in the West--12-step programs derived from Alcoholics Anonymous--are available in Asia, they are not widely disseminated and used...
...most folks with sensorineural hearing loss, the best help is a hearing aid. But only 20% to 25% of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually own them. That can be a tragedy, since studies show that older people with untreated hearing loss suffer disproportionately from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional turmoil and reduced social activity. Brenda Battat, 58, acting executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time...
CARDIAC BLUES Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but depression seems to make it weaker. A four-year study of nearly 3,000 Dutch men and women concludes that cardiac deaths are three to four times as high for those who suffer from major depression. The cause is probably a combination of the physiological consequences of depression and an unhealthy lifestyle--more common among the depressed. Treating the blues may be a great way to prevent ailing hearts...