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Maybe the twixters are in denial about growing up, but the rest of society is equally in denial about the twixters. Nobody wants to admit they're here to stay, but that's where all the evidence points. Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, a large sociological data-gathering project run by the National Opinion Research Center, found that most people believe that the transition to adulthood should be completed by the age of 26, on average, and he thinks that number is only going up. "In another 10 or 20 years, we're not going...
Relief workers say many orphans are suffering from both physical and psychological trauma. Martin Dawes, a UNICEF spokesman in Colombo, Sri Lanka, says many are "in a state of denial." Some who saw their mothers drown, he says, cling to the belief that Mom has just gone to the ocean for a while, and that she will soon return. Protecting children from exploitation is another priority. Previous disasters have demonstrated that kids are targets for gangs involved in human trafficking, which thrives in parts of the region. The issue was thrown into stark relief following reports that a missing...
...fight the disease by questioning the link between HIV and AIDS and the efficacy of AIDS drugs. Mandela's public acknowledgment last week that his son Makgatho, 54, an apprentice lawyer, had succumbed to the disease was "a political statement designed to . . . force the President out of his denial," says Debbie Mathew, executive director of the aids Foundation of South Africa. Said Mandela: I have been saying. . . . that we should speak openly about HIV/AIDS . . . It is the only way in which it will become an ordinary disease." Mbeki's office expressed its condolences for the Mandelas' loss, but a spokesman...
...often wrong. A June study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that a shocking 79% of credit reports contain mistakes. What's more, in 1 out of 4 reports, the mistakes are serious enough to result in a denial of credit...
...nations with designs on permanent seats--India, Japan, Germany and Brazil--greeted the proposals more or less warmly, despite the disappointing denial of veto power. But they still have lobbying to do. Any amendment to the U.N. charter would have to be approved by two-thirds of the U.N.'s member countries, including all of the permanent five, as well as two-thirds of the national legislatures in those approving countries. That might prove difficult, since each contender for a permanent seat could see its hopes scuttled by jealous neighbors. India will be opposed by Pakistan, and Japan could...