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...still following up with others they have identified as suicide risks. "For a child who isn't thinking clearly, they see this as a way of getting the recognition they don't have in life," says Rubin. "And for many kids death is not real--it's a fantasy concept--so you can say, 'Oh, I'll kill myself and get my picture in the paper.' They don't see that death is final...
...track upon which Israelis were headed until Netanyahu's election was fraught with dangers beyond the misguided concept of trading land for peace. Along with the price of giving up their land, Israelis in major cities are becoming increasingly secular and irreligious. Netanyahu's promises to end the sale of cheeseburgers, ham and pork, all of which are in strict violation of Jewish dietary laws, are sure to assist in the reunification of a country divided...
ValuJet president Jordan vehemently defends this practice of outsourcing, saying it "has been done by the finest airlines. It is a sound concept; it is a good concept." This is true. But the drive to slash costs can sometimes lead to cut-rate care. The FAA has found that ValuJet contracted out all its maintenance to "geographically diverse low bidders" and that there were "multiple shortcomings" in the supervision of the firms. According to experts, the relationship between an airline and its maintenance teams must be symbiotic. "You need well-trained people, people whose morale is high," explains Louis Smith...
...still drawn to the kind of female geometry that excited their caveman ancestors, but this atavism only seems to make them resentful. My dear brother, for example, a man whom the concept of political correctness persistently eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the appellation "bimbo," with its implication that a great bod is incompatible with normal intelligence. Possibly also relevant here is the masochistic T shirt that says SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body...
...only issue was one of "hope vs. fear," without addressing the candidates' military backgrounds, was to miss a crucial dimension of the election. At its heart, the question was about whom Israelis trusted more as a leader in a place where war is not an abstract concept but an everyday reality. Peres, lacking the proper military bona fides, said, "Follow me"; the Israeli electorate said no. JEFFREY KAHANA Cambridge, Massachusetts...