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...give the public broad access to government documents. See Cape Cod Times v. Sheriff of Barnstable County, 443 Mass. 587, 592 (2005); General Elec. Co. v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 802 (1999); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Bd., 388 Mass. 427, 436 (1983). To that end, disclosure is favored by a "presumption that the record sought is public." G.L. c. 66, § 10 (c ). See Bougas v. Chief of Police of Lexington, 371 Mass. 59, 61 (1976) (documents presumed to be public records when possessed by public entity). See also Matter of a Subpoena Duces Tecum...
...scene; they use SM props or fantasies every time they have sex. The scene has become so large and varied that it encompasses the rich farrago of coupling practices known as BDSM, which includes not only SM--the erotic enjoyment of inflicting and/or receiving pain--but also BD (bondage/discipline) and DS (domination/submission). BD usually involves physical restraint and a punishment/reward setup (say, Nurse Ratched with a patient). DS relationships are often as emotional as they are carnal. Submissives relish transferring authority over aspects of their lives to others; the submissive might allow the dominant not only...
...Just as important is what comes after medication: therapies and home regimens designed to help patients and their families cope with the disorder. Early last year the National Institute of Mental Health launched a five-year, $22 million study, the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) to refine bipolar therapies. Some 2,300 volunteers are participating in the program, and enrollment is expected to reach 5,000. Of all the treatments the STEP-BD doctors are studying, the most basic and perhaps the most important one for children and teens involves lifestyle management...
...quiet reality behind the giddiness. It's up to people whose compasses are more reliably functioning to step in and point the way. Says Dr. Gary Sachs, director of the Bipolar Treatment Center at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and principal investigator for the STEP-BD project: "Treatment is modeled on Homer's Odyssey. When Odysseus gets blown off course, he asks the help of his crew...
...Yale football team was favored, though only slightly. Their legendary quarterback, Brian Dowling, had never lost a football game in which he started. Today Dowling is best known as the rabidly Republican comic strip character BD, in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Trudeau was an undergraduate at Yale at that time. The Yale football team was also lead by Calvin Hill, who later helped the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl victory, and whose son Grant Hill is now a star NBA basketball player...