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...medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes of mental illness have remained the same, the delusions it produces are a distorted, funhouse mirror-type look into our own world. History is almost never viewed through the eyes of the insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally ill are products of society too; they are influenced by culture and they carry the same fears and fascinations as the sane minds that surround...
...Questioning Obama As a Barack Obama supporter, I was excited that Joe Klein had an interview with Obama [Nov. 3]. I felt that a serious turn in reporting was exactly what the country needed. However, the interview itself was disappointing. Klein refers almost apologetically to an earlier interview in which Obama "grew a bit testy when I pushed him on the need for universal health insurance and a more aggressive global-warming policy." Instead of continuing to push, Klein came off as merely pulling the Obama wagon toward the presidential finish line. Please, Mr. Klein, we finally have in Obama...
...Nova Haus even took home the Estonian government's award for Developer of the Year. "It was crazy how easy it was," recalls Hegert Lepik, 28, a lanky economics graduate and father of two who helped found the company. "I kept asking myself: How is this possible? It almost didn't seem real." In one sense, it wasn't. Less than a year after Lepik and his fellow managers were honored for their entrepreneurial smarts, the company filed for bankruptcy - a victim of the property industry's implosion. Over coffee in an empty restaurant in the heart of Estonia...
...foreign currencies, which had the effect of worsening already severe current-account deficits. In a peculiarly Estonian twist, companies in the tech-savvy country began offering high-interest short-term loans by mobile phone. Borrowers could text the company their requests and have money transferred into their bank accounts almost instantly, albeit at usurious interest rates of up to 800% a month...
...league is so competitive, and you’re seeing a lot of ties. Columbia, Princeton, Penn, almost everyone has tied at least one game,” said Head Coach Ray Leone...