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...across to the population that they have to take responsibility for their well-being and engage in more healthy behavior," says Jack Walker, executive director of the North Carolina State Health Plan. The plan estimates that claims for chronic diseases related to obesity may top $108 million a year and claims for tobacco-related illnesses more than $137 million a year...
...PTSD during and after their combat tours in Iraq. Other soldiers fall into a spiral of depression and kill themselves - so many, in fact, that idyllic Colorado Springs has one of the highest suicide rates in the country. (Army figures show that 76% of soldiers who committed suicide this year had served at least one tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.) As Colorado Springs police commander Fletcher Howard cautions, "If a guy comes home disturbed from Iraq, he's going to close the door. We don't know what we don't know...
...three-year initiative will culminate in the creation of the Education Leadership Institute, to be housed at UJ’s Soweto campus. The program will also create a network for primary and secondary school administrators and a leadership development program for school and district administrators, Sullivan wrote in an e-mail...
During her tenure, Faust has made a point of emphasizing the University’s international character, travelling to China last year for a Harvard Alumni Association conference...
...Reynolds grant—which totals $918,130—also reinstated the community journalism fellowship, established five years ago by the Reynolds Foundation to fund fellowships for reporters from small newspapers. It will be used to fund one community journalist and one business journalist per year for the next five years...