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Teens may not drink or smoke if friends are counseled not to

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Teens may be less likely to drink and smoke if their friends participate in substance abuse prevention programs, a recent U.S. study suggests. Three years later, in ninth grade, the students who didn’t attend the counseling sessions were 40 percent more likely to get drunk and more than twice as likely to smoke if none of their friends went through the program either, compared

Israel sets new terms for release of Palestinian hunger: striker

By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel set new terms on Wednesday that might hasten the release of a Palestinian who is on a 65-day-old hunger strike against his detention without trial. A Supreme Court ruling on Mohammed Allan’s petition to be freed was anticipated later in the day and could hinge on an assessment of his mental capacities by doctors in an Israeli hospital where he is in critical

Judge urges NFL, union to try for settlement in Brady suspension

By Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday urged the National Football League and its players union to continue discussing a possible settlement to resolve their dispute over New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, sitting in Manhattan, said both sides had enough “strengths and weaknesses” to their cases that they should come together to resolve

Nearly complete human brain grown in US lab: scientist

An almost complete version of a tiny human brain has been grown in a US lab in a move that could bring major strides to the treatment of neurological diseases, a scientist says. Rene Anand, a professor at Ohio State University, has grown in a dish a brain equal in maturity to that of a five-week-old fetus, his university reported. “It not only looks like the developing brain, its diverse