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Viji Sundaram American Community Media SACRAMENTO — “I am a survivor of sexual and domestic violence. I was held hostage, beaten, raped, tortured and shot,” wrote Elvira Herrera of Southern California. “If rape crisis centers didn’t exist, I would never have been able to tell my story. The staff...
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Viji Sundaram American Community Media SACRAMENTO – “Soy una superviviente de la violencia sexual y doméstica. Me retuvieron como rehén, me golpearon, me violaron, me torturaron y me dispararon”, escribió Elvira Herrera, de la red de soporte de la violencia doméstica del Sur de California. “Si no existieran los...
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Un nuevo estudio muestra que la libertad de expresion esta cada vez mas amenazada en los campus universitarios, tanto por la derecha como por la izquierda. La organizacion no partidista y sin fines de lucro Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, conocida como FIRE, encuesto a 58,000 estudiantes universitarios, preguntandoles sobre...
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A new study shows free speech is increasingly under assault on college campuses from both right and left. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, surveyed 58,000 college students, asking them about campus culture when it comes to comfort expressing ideas, tolerance for speakers, disruptive conduct,...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Esta primavera, los Institutos Nacionales de Salud comenzaron silenciosamente a cancelar programas en numerosas universidades que preparaban a prometedores estudiantes universitarios y de posgrado para obtener títulos de doctorado en ciencias. Al menos 24 campus de la Universidad de California y la Universidad Estatal de California...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences. At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students...
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A medida que el Mes de la Salud de la Mujer llega a su fin, los expertos en abuso de alcohol están hablando sobre un aumento en el consumo excesivo de alcohol entre las mujeres en los últimos cinco años. Un estudio reciente del Journal of the American Medical...
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As Women’s Health Month winds down, experts in alcohol abuse are speaking out about an increase in binge drinking among women over the past five years. A recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women are now binge drinking more than men for the...
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Every last Monday in May, the United States pauses to honor more than one million women and men who have died serving in the Armed Forces. It is a solemn day, filled with flags at half-staff, wreaths, and moments of silence. But it is also a date that many...