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...began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest...
...cooperation, public opinion lags behind. "This is much easier for the state and the military than it is for French public opinion," said Daniel Korski, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He said the powerful idea of France's military independence, enshrined in De Gaulle's walk-out, was belied by the depth of cooperation between Paris and NATO that had developed since the 1990s...
Zimbabwe lurches deeper into crisis as President Robert Mugabe's government menaces the opposition and its supporters in the walk-up to a second round of elections at the end of June. TIME's Megan Lindow spoke by phone to Mugabe's chief political rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in an interview arranged by MTVu, a college-oriented music network from MTV. Tsvangirai - who expressed his gratitude to MTVu, saying its help "will contribute to the awareness of the crisis in Zimbabwe internationally" - spoke after being detained twice in a single day by Zimbabwean...
...inner cities are only part of the problem. Despite the image we might have of the abundance and open spaces of the countryside, Americans living in isolated rural communities also tend to have few places to walk and play and few convenient options for decent food. "You have to drive miles and miles to find a grocery store," says Jan Probst, who directs the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center at the University of South Carolina. Indian reservations are often the most extreme example of this rural nutritional isolation. The Pine Ridge reservation is nearly...
Adolph, 26, arrived at the Zanmi Lasante Hospital in Thomonde, Haiti, so ravaged from advanced AIDS that doctors gave her days to live. At just 75 lb. (34 kg), she was covered in sores and couldn't walk, and her digestive system had practically shut down. But after 2 1/2 months of arv treatments, Adolph is no longer just clinging to life. Her wounds have healed, and she has enough energy to walk a mile to get water, babysit, help with chores and even do occasional fieldwork. She lives with her brother, his wife and their six children...