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...from a site that offers a money-back guarantee so that you can return anything you don't like. Second, do your research before you type in your credit-card number. The Jewelers Vigilante Committee jvclegal.org is a good place to start; it offers a buyer's checklist and links to buying tips for diamonds, pearls, gold, silver and other precious gems...
...course, in the real world, psychiatric diagnosis doesn't--or at least shouldn't--work like a checklist at a sushi counter. Many of the items that appear as diagnostic criteria in the DSM are sometimes symptoms of a disorder and sometimes signs of perfectly normal behavior. An adolescent who "often argues with adults" may have an unusual condition called "oppositional defiant disorder" or a more common condition called "being 14 years old." The DSM includes a cautionary statement saying it takes clinical training to tell the difference. But many nonspecialists use the book too: insurers open the DSM when...
...McHugh, who chairs the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the DSM has lost its usefulness partly because it has "permitted groups of 'experts' with a bias to propose the existence of conditions without anything more than a definition and a checklist of symptoms. This is just how witches used to be identified." He cites multiple-personality disorder as an example of an "imagined diagnosis"; while much of the evidence supporting its existence has been debunked, multiple-personality disorder is still listed in the DSM, though today it's called "dissociative identity...
...Some items on the inspectors' checklist - like suspected nuclear workshops and long-range ballistic missiles that require large stationary facilities - are relatively easy to spot. The man charged with finding them, iaea chief inspector Jacques Baute, said last week his nuclear-inspections team is equipped to uncover any bombs: "If you have the right people and use the right techniques, your probability of catching the offender is high." Since 1998, the IAEA has been analyzing satellite photos for signs that Saddam is pursuing nukes. Last month those photos produced images of new buildings going up at a former Iraqi weapons...
...distressed to see your checklist for helping parents recognize the warning signs of bipolar disorder. Like most teenagers, I am not happy 24/7. I can be happy, giddy, sad, mad, irritable. What teenager doesn't have emotions? One item on the list is being "very intuitive or very creative." Another is "poor handwriting." When did it become a warning sign to be creative? And if I had a nickel for every person in Fairfield County who has poor handwriting, I would be the next Bill Gates. DIANA LYNN, 15 Redding, Conn...