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...welcome - imagine yourself on a little trip. In Washington, carved into the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, are the names of 58,226 Americans who died in an unpopular war. Now, in your mind, fly to Belgium, where about the same number of names - 54,896, to be exact - are written on the Menin Gate outside Ypres. But these are not the names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died...
...house do not have to fill out census forms. If they did, KAYLA, the newest member of the extended family, would have a tough time identifying her background. The doll, who had her coming out at the recent New York City Toy Fair, is described as multiethnic, though the exact ethnicities that contribute to her olive complexion and straight, waist-length hair are not specified. "It's whatever a girl wants to see in it," said a Barbie spokesperson, who explained the doll's introduction as the company's attempt to offer dolls that reflect the racial mixture girls...
...Frattaroli might object that, as Freud put it (in a quote that introduces a chapter of “Healing the Soul”) “If it [a discoverable connection between brain and mind] existed, it would at most provide an exact location of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help towards understanding them.” And yet, it seems that we may concede this point and still not abandon the expectation that a concept of the soul will eventually become irrelevant in psychiatry...
This is certainly a strong point—and, probably, a correct one. But if, as the remarkable progress of neuroscience continually indicates, we can pin down (as Freud conceded might be possible) the exact physical location of mental phenomenon like pain—then why can’t we treat that physical location and thereby alleviate the mental problem? We do not need to rob from mental experiences, as Kim puts it, “their qualitative character, their special accessibility to our awareness, and their privacy” in order to affect and enhance them by chemically...
...strike is the essential tool of labor; it is the reason that hundreds or thousands of individually powerless individuals can exact just compensation from practically omnipotent institutions. The reason that Harvard wants to prevent its workers from striking—because a walk-out would paralyze the community—is precisely why workers must retain the right to do so. Without the strike, or at least the threat of one, labor negotiations are necessarily heavily weighted on the side of the employer...