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...after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says Sergeant Brandy Everett, 25, a self-confessed hooah girl from Rocky Mountain, N.C. "And you know what? I enjoy it." Still, some women in the military--and a good number of men--admit that the dangers of serving in Iraq have been jarring. Many enlisted before the Iraq war, when military life for privates was much the same as working in, say, McDonald's, only you had to salute your bosses. "I thought I'd be working in a hospital," says medic Sergeant...
...forced to choose between working or having a family. I came to Germany from Italy to study at a university in Munich. My idea of Germany was one of a technologically driven, progressive and modern society. Eighteen years later, after working and having my children here, I have to admit that the picture is a very different one: women have to cope with an entrenched patriarchal attitude in both the workplace and society and are offered very little support and empathy when striving to have a career and a family. I also learned two words I had never experienced directly...
...Bible” West?The video itself is another “cinematic” music video, which, either despite or because of all their pretensions, tend to feel like the products of film school grads not quite good enough for Hollywood but not quite honest enough to admit it. This video could have been perfectly enjoyable, if only someone involved had exercised a bit of modesty and just tried to make a music video, not a feature film.Taking to heart the song’s chorus (“I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra...
...even some cognitive therapists admit that despite 40 years of research, some fundamental questions about the therapy haven't been resolved. That's partly because cognitive therapy involves a variety of techniques. In addition to questioning negative thoughts in the therapy office, cognitive therapists use behavioral homework assignments-for instance, phobic patients may be asked to expose themselves to fears (like Beck going through the tunnel). Depressed clients are asked to schedule regular activities. But if cognitive therapy is all those things, critics say, maybe getting better is a matter of merely changing old behaviors, not questioning negative beliefs...
BRIN: I have to admit I never anticipated this. Especially in a place as big as the Moscone Center. It's a bit disturbing...