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...preference shared by many women. A 2005 survey commissioned by the World Poker Exchange found that women are six times as likely as men to prefer wagering in cyberspace--away from the testosterone-fueled aggressiveness often aimed at women in casinos. Also, since so many women are newcomers, they find online teaching tools and free or low-stakes games appealing. At Bodog.com for example, new players automatically get a hefty $1,000 in play money and 50 poker points toward tournaments. "Online, you can get experience for a dollar," says World Series of Poker champion Duke. "When I started...
...Yesterday’s Council meeting also included a presentation by Director of Institutional Research Nancy Zipser on a report compiled from senior survey data...
...Zipser declined to comment on the content of the Council’s discussion of the survey data...
...comprehensive survey of deployed troops began in 1997, following the lack of good data on soldiers' well-being in the first Gulf War. Thousands of soldiers in the 1990-91 conflict complained of a wide range of physical and mental ailments that came to be called Gulf War Syndrome, and for which a definitive cause has never been found. A government panel concluded a year ago that roughly one in seven veterans of the first Gulf War suffered war-related medical problems, about half the total reporting such problems in the current conflict...
...least as high as non-health development interventions such as education.”The second part of the study examined children in the Philippines born between 1983 and 1984. It compared the IQs of 1,975 children who participated in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS), and compared the performance of those who were immunized against those who were not.The immunized group of children were inoculated against polio, measles, tuberculosis, and DTP within the first two years of their lives. The second group never received vaccinations. The study found that vaccinations during childhood resulted in substantially higher...