by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
A recent study in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that people who are not users of illegal drugs, but who live in households of users, are killed at a rate 11 times higher than those who live in drug-free homes.
by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
The Financial Times tells us that "in the US and the UK, household debt has reached a record level as a percentage of disposable income."
by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
According to an article in The Washington Times, "most Americans believe the Bible is more factual than newspapers, but find their daily newspaper easier to read."
by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
According to a recent UN report, the illegal-drug industry generates $400 billion to $1 trillion in revenues and accounts for 8 percent of global trade-an industry larger than sales of iron or steel and almost as great as oil and gasoline...
by Cecil Maranville, John Ross Schroeder
Young adults have found another substance to give them a rush, but it's rushing some to their graves. Ever vulnerable to the unscrupulous pushers of potions, young people in their late teens and early 20s are buying laughing gas to get...
by Cecil Maranville, Jim Tuck, John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
By now we are used to hearing statistics such as a fifth of our youth are solicited while surfing the Internet and that a virtual flood of pornography is increasingly available to on-line users.
by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
The World Bank, predicting that the incidence of AIDS is about to explode in India, China and Eastern Europe, advocates an aggressive prevention program to include more-widespread condom distribution and needle exchanges for drug users.
by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
"America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools-It's Illegitimacy" is a chapter title in a bold book offered by Larry Elder, titled The Ten Things You Can't Say in America.
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Much of the population in South Africa is very unhappy with the present government's progress in closing the poverty gap.
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
China's growth is breathtaking. It uses about half the world's cement supplies and about a third of all steel production.
by John Ross Schroeder
According to a recent feature article in USA Today, "The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey released today by the Pew Forum on Religion...
by John Ross Schroeder
A recent feature article in a major American newsweekly stated that "Things are better than you think... But is this a true and accurate portrayal of what in fact is really happening to the United States in particular and the Western world...
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
How is Australia doing as we start the year 2008?
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
How bad is anti-semitism in Europe? Back in 2002 Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that "in Europe, it is not very safe to be a Jew."
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
A proposed American missile shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic is designed as a radar system and missile battery to counter projectiles from rogue countries like North Korea and Iran.
by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
Green salads keep cancer cells at bay: Recent research at London and Aberdeen hospitals shows that "a plate of green salad before a meal can protect against stomach cancer."