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...process of designating new mental disorders by pretending to misplace everyday experience and then trip over it in the laboratory is easy to satirize, but it has high stakes. If Relational Disorders exist (let's say they do) and doctors or drugs can make them go away (let's say they can, though heaven only knows), then a DSM listing is required or the insurance companies won't pay for treatment. Even with the listing, they are sure to grumble about it. Shelling out for even one-twentieth of the cases of "persistent and painful feelings, behavior and perception involving...
...shares airspace with a kind of quiet confidence--the kind that comes from an industry that's "recession resilient," says Bruce Parker, president of the Environmental Industry Associations, the industry trade group. The trash trade collected $43 billion in revenue for 1999 (the last year for which comprehensive data exist). This is a business so stable that a 3% dip in tons of garbage collected, like the one suffered by industry leader Waste Management in the first quarter of this year, can be characterized by a company vice president as "pretty rough." Simply put, it's good...
...Christophe Rufin are megacelebrities, and book-themed talk shows are standard TV fare. Notes Pierre Assouline, editor of Lire magazine: "The French have always felt writing was the noblest form of communication, and most honest kind of reflection. To write is to live, but to be published is to exist before the world." The rentrée littéraire is the high point of the publishing year, a sort of textual Cannes that this fall will feature an expected 663 new novels - 93 of them by first-time authors - and culminate in the October awarding of literary prizes like...
...theories of art still held that the color in a painting should be secondary to the drawing: get the structure down and then color it in. But from the 1870s Impressionism had disturbed this dull consensus. The Impressionists painted outdoors and quickly. They showed that lines did not exist to sight, but were imposed on the world by the mind. In other words, we see structure because we know it exists. The Impressionists gave structure to their paintings by juxtaposing colors. Artists were not content merely to mimic perception. Theorists of color began looking at both...
...NATO facilities. Europe's natural strengths in the Balkans - proximity and historical ties - remain its singular weaknesses as well, fueling accusations of bias toward one group or another. "In the care of Europe we'd be a Serbian colony again," grumbles an ex-rebel in Kosovo. "We wouldn't exist." Perhaps the biggest benefit of U.S. involvement over the past decade is the message it has sent to the Islamic world that the U.S. can be on Muslims' side. Until the Americans stepped in, Bosnia was a celebrated cause for anti-Western extremists like Osama bin Laden. Dozens...