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...around impoverished Latin America, where the United Nations estimates more than 4 million clandestine abortions are performed each year, resulting in more than 5,000 women's deaths. Underground abortions are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Chile. Although Chile has one of South America's strictest anti-abortion codes, it's estimated to have twice as many abortions each year (200,000) as Canada - a country with twice Chile's population. (Abortion is legal in Canada.) As a result, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution of emergency "morning-after...
...Presidents and presidential candidates have long felt pressured to conform to unnatural and confining standards. Those who couldn't meet them often pretended that they had. One of the strictest requirements, since Andrew Jackson inaugurated the era of the common man, has been that the President fulfill what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called...
...most of the afternoon's honorees were of the strictest indie pedigree. Dennis Hopper introduced a special award celebrating the film collaborations of David Lynch and Dern. "At the core of every David Lynch movie is one fundamental mystery," said Hopper, showing clips from Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Inland Empire. "What the f___ was that about...
...Crimson that about 7 percent of Harvard students are prescribed antidepressants, and that roughly 50 percent report feeling depressed at some point during their time here. Antidepressants for individuals up to the age of 18 are already marked with a “black box,” the strictest warning possible under the current system. If the FDA acts upon its findings, the warning would extend to include patients between the ages of 18 and 24. The link between the medications and suicidal thoughts and actions is not yet clearly understood, according to the National Institute of Mental Health...
...Belmont city council voted unanimously last week to draft a law banning smoking everywhere except inside homes. Expected to be enacted in January, the ban would be the nation's strictest...