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...really think guilt is at the heart of [bulimia]," says ECHO counselor Andrea Schwartz...
Located in the F-entry of Quincy House, the room is the home of the Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). There are two phones in the room. The 11 counselors who staff the hotline Sunday through Thursday use those phones to respond to calls from people concerned about eating problems. People who call to talk about the disorders, to ask questions about body images, to sob while the counselors listen...
...part of their training outline, ECHO counselors receive psychological profiles of bulimics that outline the importance of cultural factors, such as the notions that "beating the system is good" and "major transgressions require major atonement." For these women, bulimia is a way to repent for what they believe to be their sins, for them to accept roles as penitents for success and the ways in which the think they fall short of society's expectations...
...Indians, said Walter Echo-Hawk, senior counsel for the Native American Rights Fund, the agreement marks the "beginning of the end of their spiritual nightmare." In fact, some scholarly institutions have gone further: Stanford University has consented to return an entire collection of skeletal remains of 550 Indians, most of them from the Ohlone tribe, to their descendants. Nonetheless, many curators and anthropologists are worried that a sweeping national policy would empty museums across the land. Scholars argue that preserved skeletons and other human artifacts, particularly those of great antiquity, provide essential information on problems ranging from the organization...
Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...