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Abstinence and Fidelity

In the United States, there is ongoing research aimed at finding strategies that may help discourage sexual relations in order to reduce the spread of AIDS to that extent.

(MADRID) - The fight against AIDS is still on. At the global level, 33 million people are estimated to be living with this disease.

Obese Children

“The best condiment for food is hunger” - Cicerón

(MADRID) - The main problems that concern child obesity are cardiovascular and medical. Nonetheless, an even greater dilemma exists, cancer. According to a published study by Cell Magazine, overweight acts as a promoter of tumors in general and in the liver in particular.

The children of today will live for a fewer amount of years and with a worse quality of life than did their grandparents, due to the problematic consequences derived from obesity and passivity – according to the press President of the Organizing Committee of the European Society Congress of Endocrinology and Nutrition.

A Theatrical Summer in Gaza

The plays are being performed twice a day every day until mid-August for whoever is in Gaza and whoever can get to Gaza. All are welcome.

(GAZA CITY) - As soon as school ends, the entire Gaza Strip will begin the season of summer camps. There are plenty of options for kids, all organised by one group or another. Especially interesting is the Summer Games of UNRWA, now in its fourth year.

In 2007, UNRWA offered a wide range of activities, including swimming, crafts, kite-making and kite-flying, gymnastics for both boys and girls, and theatre, to name a few.

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An amazing educational site in Oregon is an uplifting impression for many.

(TILLAMOOK, Ore.) - I think we all suffer from a kind of blindness from familiarity. We see and live in our surroundings so long and our minds are so focused on immediate needs and tasks that we don't really see what's there.

Since the dawn of time artists have been "showing" us what has been under our noses all along by taking the familiar and emphasizing some aspect of it to reawaken our eyes.

Infant Hours

What does too much time in front of the TV mean for kids in the long run?

(MADRID) - It is not wrong to spend hours in front of the T.V. What is wrong is the social passivity that reality has created; it does not know how to look for other ways to spend its leisure time. This represents an empirical example of something that is not working. In principle, it seems as if reading, discussions, family time, friend reunions and studies are things of another world.

This issue becomes somewhat critical when the ones to be affected are children that spend too much time in front of the television.

`Dan Rather Reports` Investigates Oregon`s Growing Problem of Underage Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is often thought of as problem overseas, but it is actually an alarming problem here in the United States – Tuesday, May 18 at 8:00 p.m. ET

(DALLAS, Tx.) - Tuesday’s "Dan Rather Reports" will present an investigation into the growing problem of underage sex trafficking, with a focus on a city you might not expect: Portland, Oregon.

Children and Profession

“Infancy misadventures have an impact upon their lives, leaving an inexhaustible fountain of melancholy in their hearts” - P. Brulat

(MADRID, Spain) - For half of the Spanish women population between the ages of 30 and 44, having a child has completely altered their work life.

They have been forced to reduce their daily hours of work, or even have had to leave their jobs for good.

Eroding a Nation`s Will to Fight

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse" - British philosopher John Stuart Mill

(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) - I noticed a recent verdict by the UK’s Wiltshire Coroner David Masters regarding the deaths by friendly fire of three British soldiers in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Coroner Masters correctly noted that the deaths were caused by friendly fire as a result of a British Forward Air Controller (FAC) who gave the American F-15 the wrong coordinate locations for dropping a 500 pound bomb.

The Culture of Death

A “culture of life” must exist in order to contrast the previous.

(MADRID) - Japan is the country with the highest suicide index in the world, with more than 35,000 suicides every year. In the country of the born sun, one person takes their life every 15 seconds.

On the internet, we call it “collective death pacts”, which are becoming an epidemic among the Japanese youth.

Settlers Attack Israeli Soldiers, Wounding One

Rabbis for a Human Rights organization warned that the settlers are escalating their attacks and demanded the Israeli army to provide immediate protection to the Palestinian villages.

(JERUSALEM IMEMC & Agencies) - Israeli sources reported that a group of settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, attacked several soldiers and lightly wounded one soldiers Thursday.

The settlers were on their way to attack a Palestinian village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the army arrived at the scene in an attempt to stop them.