Mr. Satter is affiliated with the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute and Johns Hopkins.

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Associated Press writer Javier Cordoba reported this story in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Raphael Satter reported from London.

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"When children have family meals growing up, they are more likely to eat regularly scheduled meals as adults, " says Ellyn Satter, M.

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Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.

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In a trenchant op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal, the eminent scholar David Satter further illuminates Russia's condition, revealing how "the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power, " by, for example, adopting legislation that effectively gives the state control of NGOs - heretofore the sole outposts of Russian civil society.

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