By Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia and the author of the novel The Opposite of Love and the forthcoming The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/05/08): This Memorial Day, as an ever-increasing number of mentally and physically wounded soldiers return from Iraq, the Department of Veterans Affairs faces a pressing crisis: women traumatized not only by combat but also by sexual assault and harassment from their fellow service membhttp://www.almendron.com/tribuna/?p=19971...

This is a very well written article containing a lot of theories about our health and safety. It points out many different examples of how we can not trust the goverment or anyone else to make sure we are safe. We've seen many times on the news how the goverment and many agencies try to cover up public health safety problems - thumbs up!http://digg.com/health/You_Can_t_Trust...

Sports Training and Spines May 26th, 2008 As more kids train harder and earlier at sports that require high skill and repetitive movements with the hope of becoming pros, we are seeing more spinal injuries. Tennis and golf are particularly stressful if training becomes intense. Gymnastics is damaging too if done repetitively and the cute spinal extension of young female gymnasts stresses the pars. Many shows pars fractures. This brief summary of research spinal injury in young tennis playerhttp://www.arthurdevany.com/?p=1091...