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...hope that local authorities conduct a careful psychological autopsy to ascertain the possibility of murder versus suicide,” Welner added...
...junior season, guard Jeremy Lin has had some fine games so far. There was his career-high 30-point, nine-rebound game against Holy Cross. 26 points on 9-of-12 shooting at Colgate. 17 points and nine assists against just one turnover at home versus Santa Clara...
Highlight Reel:1. Cyberspace versus Reality: MySpace boasts more than 200 million profiles worldwide, with one in four of those profiles belonging to someone younger than 18. As a result, the website has become what the researchers dub a "media superpeer" that promotes and establishes norms of behavior among teens. So as more kids openly discuss their sexual and drug experimentation, it becomes less and less taboo to join in. The article also notes that merely presenting oneself as a wild child invites "unwanted online attention from individuals such as cyberbullies or sexual predators...
...said they thought that secondhand smoke is damaging to children’s health, compared to 84.1 percent of smokers. The researchers also found that nonsmokers’ households were more likely to enforce strict rules against smoking in their homes than those of smokers—88.4 percent versus 26.7 percent. They concluded that emphasizing that third-hand smoke harms children’s health may be important in persuading adults to prohibit smoking at home, Winickoff said. Joan Friebely, one of the study’s co-authors, as well as an instructor at HMS and a researcher...
...talk in the book about losing weight when you cut meat out of your diet. How did you feel before you started this new way of eating versus how you feel now? I don't think there's like a spring in my step. And I'm not going to give you some line about how I'm a new man, but I lost 15% of my body weight. I've been a runner practically my whole adult life and when I got heavy, my knees started to go and I started to feel slower and slower. When...