Three million Americans suffer from stuttering.  It afflicts  5% of all children and most eventually overcome it but childhood suffering from stuttering can be traumatic, producing educational, social, and occupational disadvantages.   Bruce Willis, Marilyn Monroe and Carly Simon all suffered from stuttering  as children and it can affect children of all ages but boys are three times more likely to stutter than girls.

A 19th-century historian traveling in southern Ohio later wrote about his first glimpse of Union Village, a Shaker community located near Harrison, Ohio: "When I caught sight of the first house, my opinion was confirmed that I was on the lands of the Shakers, for the …style of architecture, solid appearance and want of decorative art was before me.

A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family found that serial cohabiters are less likely than single-instance cohabiting unions to result in marriage and, if serial cohabiters do marry, divorce rates are very high.

Daniel T. Lichter of Cornell University and Zhenchao of Ohio State University used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to track the experiences of serial cohabiters, or women who have cohabited with more than one partner.  

WASHINGTON and PARIS, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- The World's #1 Platform-Independent Translation Memory Software Debuts New Release During the 49th Annual American Translators Association Conference

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- Addressing the requirements of multinational corporations, language service providers and individual translators, Wordfast today announced the launch of Wordfast 6.0.

- The new software application will be officially unveiled today in Orlando, Florida at the 2008 American Translators Association (ATA) Annual Conference.

- Conference attendees and existing Wordfast customers will have the opportunity to take home a full-featured pre-release version of Wordfast 6.0.

TORRANCE, California, November 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- CELESTRON(R) IS HONORED TO HAVE THE AWARD WINNING SKYSCOUT(R) PERSONAL PLANETARIUM(R) NAMED THE OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF IYA2009

Celestron(R), the world's leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes and related accessories, announced that their award winning SkyScout Personal Planetarium has been declared the Official Product of International Year of Astronomy 2009 by the IYA organization. Celestron's SkyScout is a must-have tool for astronomy beginners. Its high-quality features and educational value make it the perfect instrument to explore the sky during 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, said Pedro Russo, International Year of Astronomy Coordinator.

PRINCETON, New Jersey, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- All-new Green Chemistry Program to Serve Industries in Search of Economically Viable, Eco-friendly solutions

Fenfluramine, the appetite suppressant drug banned in the US in 1997 due to fears over its links to heart conditions, has been shown to have serious long-term effects. In a report published today in BMC Medicine, researchers have shown that people who stopped using fenfluramine eleven years ago had damaged heart valves up to seven years later.

Which species is more diverse, humans or chimps? Most of us would be tempted to answer 'humans'. Unless you're a primatologist or you work at a zoo, you would likely have trouble telling one chimp apart from another, not to mention distinguishing between West African and Central African chimpanzees. By contrast, we can easily spot differences among humans - if asked to guess whether someone was from China, Pakistan, or Kenya, few of us would have any trouble getting the answer correct.

By the measure of genes though, humans are amazingly uniform. Humans are genetically less diverse than chimps, and both chimps and humans are much less diverse than a common species of fruit fly. Given our species' long history of racial conflict, our genetic uniformity may come as a surprise. Not too long ago people in polite company would debate whether different human races really all belonged to one species. Our DNA tells us that our genetic differences don't even come close to matching the variety found within a single, apparently monotonous fruit fly species.

PHILADELPHIA and DUBLIN, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that it has successfully settled all pending litigation in connection with former dissenting shareholders of Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT). Shire will pay the same price of $37 per share originally offered to all TKT shareholders at the time of the July 2005 merger, plus interest.

Background to the litigation