Mes: septiembre 2019

Privilege doesn’t necessarily offer protection from drug addiction, new research suggests. Teens at elite U.S. high schools seem to face a higher risk of addiction as young adults, the study found. “We found alarmingly high rates of substance abuse among young adults who we initially studied as teenagers,” said study author Suniya Luthar, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University. “Results showed that among both men and women and across annual assessments, these young adults had substantial elevations, relative to national norms, in frequency of several indicators — drinking to intoxication and of using marijuana, stimulants such as Adderall, cocaine, and club drugs such as ecstasy,” she said in a university news release. The study included more than 500 students from affluent communities in the Northeast. They were assessed when they were high school seniors, then each year for four college years, and from ages 23 to 27. “We found rates of addiction to drugs or alcohol among 19 to 24 percent of women in the older cohort by the age of 26, and 23 to 40 percent among men. These rates were three and two times as high respectively, as compared to national norms,” Luthar said. In the younger group, rates of addiction for women were between 11 and 16 percent by 22 years old. That’s close to national norms, according to the researchers. But for men...

Airlines toted up losses topping $2 billion and struggled to get hundreds of thousands of travelers back home Wednesday after a week of crippled air travel, as questions and recriminations erupted over Europe’s chaotic response to the volcanic ash cloud. Civil aviation authorities defended their decisions to ground fleets and close the skies – and later to reopen them – against heated charges by airline chiefs that the decisions were based on flawed data or unsubstantiated fears. The aviation crisis sparked by a volcanic eruption in Iceland left millions in flightless limbo, created debilitating losses for airlines and other industries and even threatened Europe’s economic recovery. An aviation group called the financial fallout worse than the three-day worldwide shutdown after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. It was a lesson in mankind’s dependency on air travel, the vulnerability of a vital industry, and the confusion that can ensue when each nation decides for itself how to handle a problem that crosses borders. The air space over most of Europe opened Wednesday after the vast, invisible ash-laden cloud dispersed to levels deemed safe. Restrictions remained over parts of Britain, Ireland, France and the Scandinavian countries. Volcano Releases Chokehold On Europe Air TravelIceland’s Fiery Volcano Electronic boards in Europe’s biggest hubs – London’s Heathrow, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Germany’s airport at Frankfurt – showed about 80 percent of...

(CBS/AP) JOHANNESBURG – A new Nelson Mandela book featuring more than 2,000 quotations from the anti-apartheid icon was released Monday. The release of “Nelson Mandela by Himself” comes days after U.S. first lady Michelle Obama got an advance copy signed by Mandela when she met him during a visit to South Africa. Editors Sello Hatang and Sahm Venter work for Mandela’s foundation, which oversees charity and development work on his behalf and houses some of his archives. Hatang and Venter say the Nelson Mandela Foundation receives thousands of requests from researchers and others to confirm the accuracy of Mandela’s quotes. The book is, in part, an attempt to settle such questions in one place. The editors turned to speeches, notebook entries, recorded conversations and other material, some until now unpublished, for the book. Hatang and Venter say in their introduction: “We can all honor Nelson Mandela by quoting him correctly and accurately.” The apartheid government once declared it illegal to quote Mandela. He is now, according to Hatang and Venter, among the most quoted people in the world. But they say he often is misquoted. For a book that would slip easily into a jacket pocket, “Nelson Mandela by Himself” has a daunting table of contents. There are 317 subject headings, from accountability to Zionism. “Prison” is divided into a further 26 headings – one short of the 27 years Mandela...

(AP) MUMBAI, India – For the last week, the laughter around Sheetal Talao pond in suburban Mumbai has taken on a muzzled quality. On June 18, Mumbai’s high court told police to do something about the laughter that erupted beneath Vinayak Shirsat’s windows each morning, causing his family “mental agony, pain and public nuisance,” according to the Press Trust of India. Since then, members of the Sheetal Jogging Association — who have been coming to the pond for three years for laughter yoga, devotional singing and light exercise — have been trying to contain their mirth. “Nobody’s laughing now,” said member Badruddin Khan. Watch: Laughter Yoga Sheetal Talao is, in truth, not a nice pond. The water is low and scuzzy with trash. But it’s the only open space in a neighborhood of winding lanes in the northern suburbs of India’s densely packed financial capital. The single spot of constant shade — a small gazebo — is right in front of Shirsat’s apartment, a three-story pink building with black bars on all the windows. Nearby are two curved benches, rising from a small plot of red mud and 화성콜걸 weeds, that the club uses for meditation and laughter. “Only this much space we’ve got. Where can we go?” said Prabhakar Naidu, 45, who said that since he started laughing he’s been able to walk up stairs without getting winded....