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...reduce the possibility they would receive life-saving help. "We established that these patients' death had little to do with their low body weight," says lead author Jill Holm-Denoma, a professor of clinical psychology at Vermont and an expert on treating eating disorders. "The methods that they chose could have killed anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicidal Anorexics: Determined to Die? | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...step further and suggested anorexics habituate to pain, making them fearless of death, and thus more likely choose a more lethal means to end their lives. Holm-Denoma's research, however, is one of the first studies of the specific methods that suicidal anoxerics use. The gruesome methods they chose as well as how they isolated themselves from rescue, Holm-Denoma says, leaves little doubt that they wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicidal Anorexics: Determined to Die? | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...electorate. For the opposition to really score big, it must lure more Malays and Chinese. In previous elections, the opposition Islamist party PAS has had some success portraying its religious values as an antidote to rising crime and drug use. Back in 2004, 30% of Kepala Batas voters actually chose the PAS parliamentary candidate over Abdullah. (In a complicated twist of family history, Abdullah's father served as a PAS youth leader, before the party fully broke with UMNO.) This election season, PAS's green-and-white flags flutter throughout Kepala Batas. "Abdullah may come from a good Muslim family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowered Expectations | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...issue is the fact that Jarvik, while a graduate of medical school, is not licensed to practice medicine, and therefore not legally able to write prescriptions for medications. In the ads, he admits to taking Lipitor himself, and appears to give medical advice as a practicing physician. "We chose ["Dr. Jarvik"] because he is a well respected heart expert, inventor of the Jarvik heart, and we thought it was appropriate because he is well respected in the area of cardiology and vascular research," Vanessa Aristede, director of corporate communications at Pfizer, told TIME. In defending his decision to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem with Jarvik's Prescription | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...interesting to see if they want to bring out the implicit tension that Williams knew was inherent in the play, or whether they will put a greater emphasis than is originally in the text.” Johnson and Richards, who writes for The Crimson’s magazine, chose to cast the important non-speaking role of the servant in the play as a black man. “When we were auditioning, we would have accepted someone not of color for the role, but when we looked at the cast as a whole, we felt that...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staging the Race Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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