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...Wednesday, the first draft of DSM-V was published online, kicking off a three-year process of public comment and further revisions that will culminate in a new and improved version come 2013. Orthorexia is not listed in this new draft and, despite the ongoing efforts of various eating-disorder groups, is unlikely to make its way into the final edition...
...completed the first draft of her book, which had grown from a 25-page short story to a 300-page manuscript...
...actual Enumeration" of the population every 10 years in order to determine how many Representatives each state gets in the House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane, or pauper." The 1870 Census distinguished between farmers and "farm laborers" and between housekeepers and those just "keeping house." (Enumerators were also...
Wilf turned in her thesis prospectus five months early, and the work, entitled “The Politics of Art: International Disputes over Ownership of Art and Cultural Artifacts,” “just sang” from the first draft, says Winter, who served as Wilf’s secondary thesis advisor...
...book mixes satire of the Right (“I assured her that waterboarding is not considered ‘torture’, because by definition, the United States does not torture people”) with criticism of political culture in general. We are taught how to draft an official apology that does not, in fact, apologize. We are given a politician’s guidebook to having a tryst with a prostitute and not getting caught (“Pay with cash. Preferably, Canadian.”) and how to make a controversial blog statement that will...