"The Level I trauma centers are really expensive, " said Dr. Garen Wintemute, who works in UC Davis' Level I trauma center in California and is the director of its Violence Prevention Research Program.
But a city like New Orleans, with its rebuilding challenges, its violence, its rich culture, the odd mix of civic virtue and corruption, and its long-term existential risks from hurricanes and rising seas, deserves a first-class newsgathering operation.
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Given advance hype for the movie as extravagant as its violence, I doubt that audience members, whatever their race or age, bought tickets with the expectation of seeing some historically faithful saga of antebellum life, and neither did I.
Libya, with all its cruelty and its tragic violence this week, shows why.
By screening victims for risk factors at crime scenes, in hospital emergency rooms, and in court and linking those most at risk with immediate crisis intervention services, Maryland has reduced its domestic violence homicide rate by 34% over the past five years.
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Bangladesh will also develop a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women to strengthen enforcement of its 2010 Domestic Violence Act.
Mr. MOUWAFAK AL-RUBAIE (Iraqi National Security Adviser): To reach out and tell them that, look, if you don't engage constructively and positively in Iraq, if you do not help the national unity government in controlling the violence and defeating al-Qaida and its affiliates, this violence will spill over across the borders.
And it was driven to sort of openly declare its renunciation of violence in Egypt.
In its most recent inspection, HM Inspectorate of Prisons highlighted its concerns about violence at the institution.
It said the disorder was "unprecedented in its scale of violence and the way in which events escalated rapidly".
Over the last two years, The Retreat has seen a stunning 96 percent increase in calls to its local domestic violence hotline.
It's worth asking ourselves why we keep returning to video games despite the lack of evidence to support its link to violence.
Now, we will be better equipped to recognize violence in its early stages, and help to reduce the number of domestic violence homicides.
Khost is a city in a province of the same name that borders Pakistan and has endured its share of violence during the Afghan War.
When Afghanistan enacted its Elimination of Violence Against Women law in 2009, it criminalized child marriage, selling and buying women to settle disputes, assault and a few more acts of violence against women.
Film critic Roger Ebert sparked a lively Web debate by declaring the movie morally reprehensible for its level of violence, just the kind of publicity that makes people at least want to see what a film is all about.
With its undertones of violence and sexuality, the choreography matches in exuberant innovation Debussy's score, which draws on rhythms from popular dance and song, but weaves them into an extraordinary symphonic landscape that took 30 years to catch on in the concert hall.
Shortly prior to its ceasefire announcement MEND had carried out its boldest attack against Nigeria's oil installations since it launched its campaign of violence in late 2005, when an attack on Shell's Bongo facility, 120km out to sea, forced the Anglo-Dutch major temporarily to halt production equivalent to about 10% of Nigeria's output, and to declare force majeure.
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India accuses its neighbour of trying to derail the Kashmir election through violence, thus failing its test for resuming dialogue.
" Nearly two decades later, "Dark Matter, " with its rejection of the braggadocio and violence often found in hip-hop and its embrace of poetry and natural imagery, could finally enable this father of two to seize that mantle of "child educator.
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The critically-acclaimed film has been dubbed the Brazilian Goodfellas because of its gritty intensity and violence.
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It can be downright mulish about burying its rare moments of violence or sex.
It says those signing "condemn the inciting of violence, its justification... and its exploitation in any form".
South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011 but is still dealing with violence inside its own borders.
The video game industry has defended the use of gun violence in its games, saying that any attempt to regulate digital media was futile.
Peace efforts are currently centring on implementing recommendations of an international commission led by former U.S. senator George Mitchell, which published its report into the violence Monday.
This has not stopped the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) giving Hanna a mild 12A certificate, citing its "moderate" violence and "one use of strong language".
Things were not always rosy during the Test series as spectator violence reared its ugly head again in Calcutta, but most cricket fans were happy at the resumption of tours.
The Obama administration has strongly condemned the Syrian government's violence against its own citizens but it seems to have sought in vain for any real levers with which to influence the Assad regime.
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