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...medical community remains divided over whether to publicize asphyxiation games. "There's a fear that if you raise awareness then other people will start to copy it," Field says. Last year, the medical journal Pediatrics reported that one-third of American doctors had never heard of the choking game and only 2% had ever discussed it with teenage patients or their parents. But it appears that many young people are finding out about the activity on their own - potentially without being made aware of the dangers. In a study in the journal Injury Prevention published last February, nearly half...
...only is the first and only female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, finishing her third year as leader of an energetic Democratic majority, but she is doing it with style, creativity and persistence. Pelosi has risen to the challenge offered by the economic instability and tumult of a new Administration to preside over a historic session of Congress. If that doesn't make her Person of the Year, I don't know what could...
...series of earthquakes registering as high as 7.2 on the Richter scale caused a 10-ft.-high (3 m) wave to strike the Solomon Island of Rendova on Jan. 4, destroying the homes of more than 1,000 people--a third of its population. Recalling a deadly tsunami that claimed more than 50 lives in 2007, residents scrambled to higher ground--a move that may have saved them; no deaths or injuries have been reported...
...third and final phase of the new plan—furthering general campus development in Allston—includes the creation of a new faculty-led Work Team, which Faust characterized in her letter as having “expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy.” The committee will be led by Peter Tufano, senior associate dean for planning and university affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill P. Purcell, director of the Institute of Politics and former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, and Alex Krieger, chair of the department of urban planning...
...that did not stop Cornell from netting two third period goals to come back from a 4-2 deficit entering the final frame...