The recent debate over the effectiveness of condoms reflects an ominous pattern, beginning with the reinstatement last January of the Global Gag Rule, that is emerging from the Bush Administration.
One doctor who smokes and treats heroin and cocaine users says the addictions are very similar. Experts say that to quit, women need to use every strategy available, ranging from support groups to nicotine replacement drugs. Second of two articles.
Women have come a long way as far as the intensity of tobacco advertising targeted at them, especially teen-agers. Now, lung cancer kills more women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancer combined. First of a two part-series.
Just four days before her death this summer, Dona Agueda Martinez, 102, was just beginning her latest weaving when she told the writer, Adelita Medina, how her literal and metaphoric “dance on the loom” kept her mind “strong and focused.”
