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...menacingly at one of the photographers in the mob that followed her and threw out an obscenity-laced threat. The filmed outburst was played repeatedly, even on evening-news talk shows. But Schaffel attributes it to the stress of the sudden spotlight. "Debbie is very well spoken when cameras aren't shoved in her face and people aren't bombarding her with insulting questions," he says...
...missed depression in their patients. In some of the studies, researchers went back over case records and picked out patients who appeared to have the illness. In other studies, researchers interviewed patients and made diagnoses in person. But virtually all the studies pointed to the same conclusion: general physicians aren't very good at recognizing the most common mental illness in the world...
...simplicity has also forced Obama to stick with - indeed, to double down on - the current practice of having employers provide health insurance. This is the weakest, most illogical part of the system. It is difficult to sustain in a global economy where American corporations have overseas competitors that aren't saddled with providing health care for their employees...
...polling agency Ifop captures the mood. It found that younger French women not only have a problem with nudity - but actually consider themselves prudish. Fully 88% of the women questioned qualified themselves as pudique - a term that can mean anything from "modest" or "prim" to "priggish." And they aren't joking. Though 90% said they get naked with their husband or partner, 59% avoid being nude around their children. Sixty-three percent said they refused to undress around female friends; 22% said they considered a woman in her underwear already naked. (See TIME's France covers...
...There aren't any rules, but, yeah, it's true when you're at the beach and look around, the only topless women anymore are older," says Elodie, 19, as she visited an artificial beach along the Seine known as Paris Plage recently. Elodie pointed out that a municipal fine - and frequently lousy weather - make going topless at Paris Plage a nonstarter. When asked whether she went topless on vacation beaches - and what factors made her decide when she did and didn't - Elodie's reply was as chilly as it was logical. "All those things," she said, "are personal...