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...outdoors. The countless pots, quilts and needlepoints and furniture blend together into a fuzzy outline of American home decorating. The muddle firmly conveys that Quakers and Pennsylvania Germans made a significant contribution to the aesthetic of storage, but it’s difficult to form any desire to distinguish between...
...result of the settlement, the College Board, which owns the SAT, must also review its own SAT score reports. Without the notations, colleges will have no way to distinguish between timed and untimed exams-leaving some Harvard administrators wary of potential abuses of the testing process...
Making things even tougher, phobias are often hard to distinguish from other anxiety disorders. A person who feels compelled to wash or shower dozens of times a day may have a phobic's terror of germs, but a clinician would easily peg the problem as obsessive-compulsive disorder, not a specific phobia. The survivor of an airline crash may exhibit a phobic's panic at even a picture of a plane, but likely as not, the fear is one component of a larger case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Different conditions require different treatments, and without the right care...
...they may have consumed contaminated feed. Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow. Within days, the USDA issued an emergency order to acquire the animals. But the owners went to court, claiming, correctly, that the USDA could not distinguish between mad cow and scrapie, a threat to sheep but not humans. A federal appeals court ruled against the shepherds this month, and last week the flocks were seized. Why does it take so long to determine if they have been infected? The only way to confirm TSE is either...
...Before age seven, it's common for kids to have extreme fear reactions," says psychologist Steven Phillipson, clinical director of the Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York City. "The ability an older child or adult has to distinguish between reasonable and excessive reactions is not yet developed...