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...This has given the Summer School the opportunity to tell people to be more cautious,” he said. “They tend to assume that everyone following them in has a right to be there...
...because women are more sensitive to the carcinogens in cigarettes, a woman who smokes the same amount as a man has a 20% to 70% higher risk of developing lung cancer. To compound that, women's tumors tend to appear on the lungs' periphery, so their cancer is often caught later...
...there - mostly because firefighters are a hard group to track. There are about 1.1 million in the U.S., but only 20% are fulltime professionals. The rest are part-timers or volunteers who drift in and out of service, and it's from these shifting ranks that problem firefighters tend to arise. "We need to be careful not to put professional firefighters or even most volunteers into this category," warns former fireman Ken Cabe of the South Carolina Forestry Commission...
...Deadalus, you can’t smoke... People tend to smoke a lot in the book business,” he explains, exhaling in perfect puffs between sentences...
...Some of that owes to parents giving up daughters for adoption without registering their birth. But population experts at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing estimate that up to one-third of the girls are missing because of gender-based abortions. Rural Chinese women also tend to breast-feed girls for shorter periods, providing less hope for survival. Chinese demographers estimate that in some rural areas, 80% of children from ages 5 to 10 are boys...