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Still, there's happy news within the findings. Timberlake was especially pleased by the relatively positive marks given Middle Easterners - hardly something that would have been expected after Sept. 11. "Even in the post-9/11 context, we're not seeing Middle Easterners stirring much fear, or at least as much as we thought," says Timberlake. Indeed, they stir a fair amount of respect, with 75% of respondents not questioning their self-sufficiency, 81% having no quarrel with their intelligence and 69% rejecting the stereotype that they are generally poor...
Contrasted with the very visible modern structures of President Teodoro Obiang’s government and family, the deplorable slums of Malabo are a visual hypocrisy staring everyone in the face. Tackling government corruption and greed in a developing context is admittedly a challenging task, but that is perhaps not even the real issue. Obiang could easily invest in bringing Malabo and the rest of the country’s infrastructure into the 21st (20th?) century and still have plenty of money left over to squander...
...disorders like depression are changing: "Among antidepressant users, the percentage who also received antipsychotic medications increased, whereas the percentage who also underwent psychotherapy declined. Together with an increase in the number of antidepressant prescriptions per antidepressant user, these broad trends suggest that antidepressant treatment is occurring within a clinic context that places greater emphasis on pharmacologic rather than psychologic dimensions of care...
...true feelings of the women on the receiving end (and whether or not they have the luxury of sleeping with whomever they deem worthy, just like the men). But if they do, it is hard to argue for a rigid moral code of fidelity in this fourth-world context (and especially given our own cultural shortcomings in this arena—I’m talking to you, Governor Sanford...
...nurse-practitioner profession was created in 1965, the same year as the invention of Medicare, which dramatically increased the need for primary-care providers. Yet while nurse practitioners can be valuable assets in the context of health reform, they have also created a conflict with doctors, many of whom are not keen on being supplanted by providers with far less training; doctors in some cases have lobbied to restrict the services of nurse practitioners. "In some situations, it can be a turf battle," acknowledges Rebecca Patton, president of the American Nursing Association...