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US Parents Risk Jail When Their Teens Drink at Parties

...teenage children drink alcohol at parties, even at home under adult supervision. A Virginia couple who provided beer at their home for their 16-year-old's birthday party to stop him from drinking behind their backs, ran afoul of a ...

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

... in Alberta. Focus groups were also conducted with home care nurses in the health region. During the interviews, patients were encouraged to retrace their illness experience, explore what their heart conditions meant to them, and identify both barriers and facilitators to managing chronic illness in a r...

Southern England Far Healthier Than the North

..., the east coast town of Boston in Lincolnshire is home to England's fattest people, where one-third of adults (31 per cent) are considered clinically obese. The national figure is 21.8 per cent. A Department for Health spokesman said: "It's fair to say these figures show the South is healthier than t...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...ch once opened had to be transferred to bottles at home or drunk as soon as possible. New-age BIBs, plastic air-tight containers with a self-sealing tap, allow wine-lovers to drink by the glass without spoiling the wine or altering its taste. Mouchet said the rise of BIBs, which now represent 15 per cent ...

Mothers of Children Killed in Fire Charged With Manslaughter

...either girl set the fire." Mangham lived in the home with her four children, Dezekiah Holyfield, 3, Ced...epresents Ms. Love, said the women returned to the home about the same time as fire trucks around 1:20 a.m. Mr. Zappala toured the burned-out home with h...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...usham Hassan, 37, cares for around 30 orphans in a home funded by private donations. Prior to opening the "Safety House," Hassan worked for another private organisation established in 2003 to care for Baghdad's orphans. But four months ago the organization was forced to close for financial reasons. Fear...

JK Rowling Intensifies Her Disabled Children's Rights Crusade

...d a picture of Vasek Knotek, a young boy in a care home near Prague whose face emerged from a bed encircled by heavy mesh. In a heart-rending article, Rowling has described the plight of these children and explained why her charity is important. "Two weeks ago I visited Prague for the first time. It i...

Poor Health Practices Plague Rajasthan Tribal Women

Women in Rajasthan's tribal areas still consider home to be the safest place for deliveries, are afraid ...ercent of pregnant women deliver their children at home with the help of unskilled midwives. "There is a common myth that home is the safest place to cond...

Drugs More Important Than Kids for Katona, Says Her Candy Man

... image of being a family person is rubbish and her home environment is not suitable for the kids. All th... wouldn't even get up in the morning if she was at home to see the girls off to school because she was always on benders or sleeping off the effects, he sai...

Singaporean Student to Present Stem Cell Research Paper at Conferences in US, UK

...), June 25 to 28, in Las Vegas. Before returning home to Singapore, Nicholas will continue to represent the Bioinformatics Institute, one of the 14 research institutes of Singapores A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), by presenting his research paper at the World Congress on Engineerin...

New Research Centre at Sydney to Lead Cancer Fight

... being credited with attracting leading scientists home to undertake crucial research in cancer. It is the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and a first for Australia. The centre, an Australian first to establish facilities for research and clinical drugs trials into both adult and children...

Two Year Probation for Cobra Owner Helder Claro

...ve from the rooming house adjoining Claro's rented home and cost two landlords dearly in lost rental income. The snake was never found. Claro also kept a cobra at his locker at work. He didn't mention it when he was arrested, and a co-worker who found it narrowly missing being attacked, a snake expert te...

Norwegians Take in the Sun in Spain on Doctors' Orders

...eeking to circumvent long waits or higher costs at home -- come to Spain knowing they are entitled to bene...ts proximity to the town of Alfaz del Pi, which is home one of the biggest concentration of Norwegian residents abroad. More than half of Alfaz's roughly ...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...g in-door toilet use for reasons like proximity to home - resulting in stench, and confined space, were converted after personal experiences made them wiser. Ram Dular Kaushik had a stomach operation three years ago and found it difficult to walk long distances to defecate. "Someone had to always ac...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

..., Hubert de Bouard, put it: "Not many people drive home drunk on Petrus." Much of the global wine and spirits industry remains wary that it may be taken down the same road as the tobacco industry and is in consequence keen to self-regulate and take responsible drinking seriously. But Robert Joseph, a ...

Greek Heatwave Kills Two

... The government said it would send civil servants home early on Tuesday and Wednesday to save energy. The heatwave is expected to abate starting Thursday....

Afghan Refugee Gives Birth to Quintuplets in Pakistan

... Baluchistan province have been asked to either go home or to move to new camps further from the border. More than 2.8 million Afghans who fled a quarter-century of instability in their homeland have returned since 2002 under a United Nations-assisted voluntary scheme, but almost the same number remain ...

Laura Bush in Senegal for Anti-HIV/AIDS, Malaria Campaigns

...ca remains by far the worst-affected region and is home to two-thirds of all people living with HIV. In 2005 Bush launched a anti-malaria campaign aimed at funding pesticide spraying, handouts of bed nets and provision of anti-malarial drugs. Malaria remains a leading killer worldwide, claiming more t...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

...rts will gather in the tiny Arctic town of Vardoe, home to the worst of the Norwegian witch trials in the 17th century, on Thursday for three days of lectures and talks on witchcraft in ancient and contemporary societies. "Witches and people accused of being witches are no longer persecuted in the West,...

WWE Superstar Chris Benoit Kills Wife, Son Before Committing Suicide

...f Chris, Nancy, and seven-year-old Daniel in their home in Atlanta, Georgia. The website also states that lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriffs Department has confirmed that the deaths were the result of a double murder-suicide. The former World Heavyweight Champion was to ap...

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