Month: April 2013

The young athlete in California was revived by paramedics and is in stable condition.        

The Los Angeles Times, publishing yesterday, took a look at suicide rates in the U.S. Army and a program at Ft. Bliss, Texas, that seems to be making a difference. The latest data it could obtain was from 2011. A look at the available data reveals that the military does not have current data or does not make it public. Making some sense of the numbers and what they mean is difficult.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As parents, Jeremy Richman and Jennifer Hensel were plunged into grief when their only child, 6-year-old Avielle, was killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As scientists, they wanted answers about what could lead a person to commit such violence.

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has reaffirmed the Vatican's criticism of a body that represents U.S. nuns which the Church said was tainted by "radical" feminism, dashing hopes he might take a softer stand with the sisters. Francis's predecessor, Benedict, decreed that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group that represents more than 80 percent of the 57,000 Catholic nuns in the United States, must change its ways, a ruling which the Vatican said on Monday still applied. …

BEIJING (AP) — A new case of bird flu in China's capital, a 4-year-old boy who displayed no symptoms, is adding to the unknowns about the latest outbreak that has caused 63 confirmed cases and 14 deaths, health officials said Monday.