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Rancho Bernardo Heart and Disease Study Observes 40th Year
“We studied the reasons for gender differences in heart disease and diabetes — our first questions — plus chronic arthritis, headaches, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, cancer, and cognitive, mental and functional health.” more »
Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Soldiers’ Abuse
Thousands of women massed in Tahrir Square here on Tuesday afternoon and marched to a journalists’ syndicate and back in a demonstration that grew by the minute into an extraordinary expression of anger at the treatment of women by the military police more »
Living on the Edge in Brooklyn, New York
Sol and Marilyn Weltman live in Brighton Beach, New York and earn a yearly sum of just over $30,000 from Social Security. Like many senior citizens, they technically live above the poverty line, but they struggle to make ends meet more »
To Submit, or Not to Submit? That Was the Right Question - But Was It Sexist?
During the Republican debate conservative columnist Byron York asked candidate Michele Bachmann: "As president, would you be submissive to your husband?" Bachmann evaded the question, saying that submissive really meant respect, and that both she and her husband respected each other. more »