This year, for instance, the league will hold the "NFL Experience" at the Ernest N.

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According to U.N. statistics, one in three women will experience violence in her lifetime, including beating, rape or assault, making such violence a more prevalent problem than AIDS, malaria or any other disease.

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Allen had big dreams for his Experience Music Project, the Seattle rock 'n' roll museum that opened in June.

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But rock 'n' roll is fundamentally a reflection of the American experience.

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That experience helped him leap from an administrative role onto the U.N.

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For partners and spouses, "it is vital that they learn to create a buffer between the person's reaction to stress and their own experience, " says Robert Lawrence Friedman, president of Stress Solutions, a Forest Hills, N.

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