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...press for better diagnosis, better treatment. Because when we go into denial, what's going to happen far more often than not, is that those people with mental illnesses are going to wind up self-medicating with alcohol, with drugs. So then you're going to have a dual-diagnosis problem. And sooner or later they're going to run into the police, and they're going to be incarcerated. We're already disproportionately part of the penal system, and a high percentage of those people in jail have mental illnesses...
...India. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, says he sees a single advantage to the new approach: that the Bush Administration is finally acknowledging that global warming is real and that fossil fuels play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern of climate instability we're seeing now is what we predicted for the end of this decade. Look at what's happening in Bombay." According to environmentalists, the torrential rain...
Oakley's Thump MP3 sunglasses, now available in 256MB and 512MB versions, ably serve the dual purpose of keeping sun out of your eyes while putting music into your ears. And they do have a sort of Riddick-like appeal. But are they cool enough to justify spending $400-500 on an undersized MP3 player and a pair of sunglasses...
...protested his innocence, joined after two years by Emile Zola, the most famous and reviled writer of his time. The analyst of motives thundered what others had only whispered: the dominant powers of France, threatened by Germany, narcotized by visions of a glorious and irretrievable past, regarded Jews as dual threats. In one view, they were radicals seeking to undo the state. When that label did not adhere, they were vicious usurers, arms of the Rothschild octopus. The climate of xenophobia was intensified behind barracks doors , where a rising Jewish officer was considered an insult to history and an affront...
...relocated some 3.5 million blacks to the homelands in the past 25 years. For the moment, the 8 million blacks who live in the four homelands that have accepted independent status from Pretoria--Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei--will still be considered foreign nationals. They are expected to receive dual citizenship by the end of the year. Other blacks living in rural areas are basically free to seek jobs in cities whenever they choose, although they remain barred from residing in areas reserved for whites. That worries some white South Africans, who fear that more black migration to urban areas...