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...with psychiatric disabilities have had a much harder time being accepted by corporate America. A big reason is that mental ailments are often still kept under wraps. An employer may not even be aware that someone has a mental illness until a difficulty arises on the job. But the biggest problem remains old-fashioned fear. "There is still an enormous apprehension in hiring people with psychiatric disabilities, for fear that they will go out of control," says Ellen Gussaroff, a New York City psychoanalyst who estimates that about one-third of her patients have had problems...
Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Stratfor, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Stratfor makes money by selling the results of its sleuthing (covering nations from China to Chile) to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at www.stratfor.com...
...have a 1 in 9 chance of getting sick tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease is by far the biggest killer of women in the U.S., followed by lung cancer...
...take much credit for the luminous State of this Union, since they have spent the year in a locker room, arguing about sex. And in the year in which the phrase divided government came to refer to a government divided from its people, says Brownback, that "is the biggest disconnect...
...DELHI: Terrorists, like celebrities, hate being ignored. India's reported foiling of an Osama bin Laden plot to bomb U.S. targets there may be a sign of a new offensive by the Saudi superterrorist. "The biggest threat to Bin Laden is dropping out of the media spotlight," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "With the Ramadan fast over, he may now be feeling the pressure to carry out some actions and show that the clampdown on his organization hasn't stopped...