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Studies of young criminals have found that more than 70% of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes. Children from broken families are nearly twice as likely as those in two-parent families to drop out of high school. After assessing the studies, economist Sylvia Hewlett suggested that "school failure may well have as much to do with disintegration of families as with the quality of schools...
...Radio in Afghanistan, was shot seven times while sleeping with her baby. Another Afghan woman, newscaster Shokiba Sanga Amaaj, 22, was murdered a week before. As violence against women in Afghanistan rises, especially targeting those who have embarked on careers, can the U.S. Congress help? It earmarked $45 million--twice the 2002 amount--for Afghan government groups and NGOs dedicated to empowering women and girls. The act came too late for Zaki: it passed June 6, the day she died...
...know Paris' story all too well: celebutante on probation for drunk driving is caught going twice the speed limit with no headlights and a suspended license; sentenced to 45 days, she's released after three by a softhearted--or perhaps lightheaded--sheriff, only to be ordered back by an irate judge amid a storm of public outrage and media glee. But even then it is not to the county lockup she is remanded but to a special medical facility, for an unspecified ailment, at 10 times the cost of regular jail...
...circulating cancer cells and better understanding what that head count means. At the ASCO conference, researchers from the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands reported that after about a month of treatment, patients who had advanced prostate and colon cancers and lower circulating cell counts survived an average of twice as long as those who had higher levels. More cells in the blood could be a sign that the drugs are not working and that it's time for a different chemotherapy regimen. Such blood-based diagnostics may not yet have beaten cancer, but, says an enthusiastic Mills, they...
Barack Obama must have been nodding in agreement. In his own address a few weeks earlier, Obama dwelled on "impoverished, weak and ungoverned states." China came up twice. He did linger over Russia but less as a powerful competitor than as a country too impoverished, weak and ungoverned to safeguard its nukes...