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...education, Sherry Workman, principal of Laurel Elementary in Fort Collins, noted that behavior infractions fell 66% after she implemented various "bullyproofing" initiatives at her school. The younger children, for instance, are coached in how to walk confidently past older kids who are talking aggressively. Grades 2 through 4 undergo "Be Cool" training, in which counselors present provocative scenarios and ask students to decide between a "hot response" and a "cool response." The latter choice wins praise for the kids...
...question has not made their own stringent moral evaluation already. As a "straight" male, I have never had much cause to decide whether the entire body of my sexual desire was moral or not, and I hold in high regard those of us who are strong enough to undergo the moral and emotional self-examination that this entails. It seems to me that the "morality debate" is being fought out daily in the hearts and lives of BGLT individuals, and any claim of another person's right to externally arbitrate this struggle should be carefully evaluated...
...fewer labor complications. In their book, Mothering the Mother, Kennell and Klaus compare labor in both doula-assisted and non-doula-assisted births and report that doula-assisted mothers made fewer requests for pain medication, had shorter labor and had fewer epidurals. They were also half as likely to undergo caesarean section...
...Women whose Pap smears aren't quite normal, but not abnormal either, are usually advised to do one of two things: get a follow-up Pap in six months or undergo an expensive procedure called a colposcopy, in which the cervix is closely examined and usually biopsied. Now researchers report on a third alternative. In a major study, they found that testing for the human papilloma virus in women with equivocal Paps quickly and accurately identifies which women are most likely to have precancerous or cancerous lesions upon biopsy, sparing half of them the need to undergo...
...depression. Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, says 3 out of 4 of the electroshock patients he speaks with had negative experiences: coercion by psychiatrists, confusion, memory loss. Rogers and Lawrence don't want the treatment banned, but they believe few would undergo it if they knew all the risks beforehand...