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Goodman says that he chooses to ask for help in a selective manner. To an observer, then, RSI may appear to be a selective problem, he says. They may think injured people decide when they are hurt and when they need help. This situation, Goodman says, unfortunately breeds a distrust for people with...
Even some doctors, according to Goodman, distrust people who claim to have RSI. This makes the experience of having the injury even more grueling...
...graft. Parents like Sanchez accuse Knight of stirring up racial resentments among blacks to deflect criticism about her administration. Knight dismisses her critics, saying, "Whenever whites are in charge of Latinos, they don't get the same kind of push that a black superintendent does. People...tend to distrust those who look more like them...
...That distrust, which runs in two directions, seems to touch everything in the district. Not long ago, Latino residents decided to rename one of the elementary schools after the late activist Cesar Chavez, as a mark of cultural pride. But on the day of the dedication, supporters of the name change showed up at the school to find a group of blacks there too--protesting. They thought the Latinos wanted to honor Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, and they disapproved. Recalls Matias Varela, a Hispanic resident who heads the county's arts council: "It was a total misunderstanding between...
...inspectors renew their search, they will tangle once again with Iraq's longtime chief of bioweapons production, a diminutive woman named Rihab Rashida Taha or, to the U.N. representatives who distrust her, "Dr. Germ." Little known until last week, when NBC Nightly News revealed her role, Taha was responsible for tests of anthrax and botulinum at Iraq's Salman Pak facility, first on rats and mice, then on rhesus monkeys, beagles and donkeys. Still unreleased videotapes seized by the U.N. two years ago show animals that had been exposed to germ agents writhing and dying in agony...