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...hasn't progressed much since. Anecdotally, therapists who now specialize in video-game and Internet addiction say it's a growing and serious problem. But it will be some time before it meets the threshold for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). "The central issue is the absence of research literature on this," says Dr. Charles O'Brien, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Studies in Addiction and the current chair of the DSM-V committee to revise the manual, adding that with the backdrop of the health-care debate...
Many details, however, remain unclear: the plot's real targets, for instance, and just how far the plotters had gone before the FBI disrupted their plans. Here are three of the case's central questions that are still unanswered...
...made a great effort, and I realize they live in a democracy with limits on their actions," he says. "But I do feel they could and should do more, like trade sanctions." When reminded that the U.S. is largely prevented from cutting off trade with Honduras because of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Zelaya insists, with some irony, "I am still the legitimate President of Honduras, and I approve of that action...
...distance from—the science that allows Powers to arrive at the book’s core issue: Genetic engineering, for all the moral qualms that arise from it, gives humanity a chance to rewrite, to edit, to choose its own genetic story.This is the central idea behind the novel, and “Generosity” explores it in endless, and often brilliant, variations. Russell’s subject—creative nonfiction—is exactly what genetic enhancement is: reality, just with some creativity, to make it something you want to read about. The book...
...already bears for illegal-drug cultivation, political corruption, government distrust and a general frontier mentality. He recalls the haranguing ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer took from Bill O'Reilly during an interview before the February broadcast of "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains," her documentary about life in central Appalachia, which includes Clay County. "He basically asked her why anyone should care about that area and said it's a lost cause...