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Widom points to years of past research linking early childhood abuse to an increased possibility of long-term behavioral and psychological problems, ranging from low educational achievement to criminal behavior, risky sexual practices and even increased chance of obesity. "Child maltreatment has long-lasting effects across multiple domains of functioning. It's not just in childhood. It lasts into adulthood, and we are not really thinking about these long-term consequences, and we're not planning for them," she says...
...University will also convert existing short-term tax-exempt debt into bonds with longer maturities, allowing the University to postpone short-term payments to debt holders and retain a larger financial cushion to the volatility in the credit markets...
...Frankel, and committee member Robert E. Hall of Stanford said that policies should be aimed at creating a large stimulus to aid the ailing economy. “Many people are saying across the political spectrum that a good-old fashioned stimulus is what we need in the short term,” Frankel said. “I think it’s very important that [fiscal policies] be well targeted and well designed and do the minimum damage to the long-term fiscal health.” But Frankel cautioned policymakers not to repeat the mistakes...
...because Chambliss and Martin are both running fairly typical Republican and Democratic campaigns in a strongly Republican state. Chambliss was first elected to Congress in 1994, and his campaign sounds a lot like the template Republicans used to seize Capitol Hill that year, except for the emphasis on term limits and changing Washington. He's portrayed Martin as a squishy Big Government liberal who supports Obama, higher taxes, socialized medicine and pro-abortion judges who legislate from the bench, but opposes the Second Amendment, prayer in schools, offshore drilling and a bill to make English the official language of Georgia...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given his rubber-stamp National Assembly the green light to fashion yet another constitutional referendum on whether presidential term limits should be eliminated in the western hemisphere's largest oil producer. "We're going to achieve it," the left-wing Chávez declared to thousands of supporters in Caracas on Sunday. "We're going to demonstrate who rules in Venezuela. If God gives me life and health, I will be with you until 2021" - the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain. "Uh-ah, Chávez no se va," he sang...