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...Executive Officer Elizabeth Y. Lint said if the initiative passes, the commission will decide whether to approve license applications based on the potential harm to the area, the extent of demand, and the level of local support...
...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...
...tricky to separate in mental illness, and anorexia, which kills between 5% and 10% of its victims, is no exception. Doctors don't know what causes the condition, though for a long time they've had a fair idea about who's prone to developing it. To some extent it runs in families, though it may be that some parents pass on to their children, genetically or by example, tendencies toward perfectionism, hypersensitivity and perseverance - traits that, combined with low self-esteem, appear to be preconditions for anorexia. Typically striking in adolescence, the disorder is more common in affluent countries...
...scans showed that when the anorexics and the controls looked at pictures of others, the type and extent of their brain activity more or less matched. But it was a different story when the two groups studied their own image. The controls' brains again lit up in predictable regions, but activity in the anorexics' brains was much more limited. Specifically, the areas involved in visual perception and emotional processing stayed out of play. Because the anorexic patient can scarcely bear to look at herself, Sachdev theorizes, "I think what the brain is trying to do is inhibit the level...
...immigration policy that gives us the numbers we want. They had almost none of that in 1915 - it's not that they were dumb; it's that they had different problems. I mentioned a second difference - the civil rights movement happened in the 1950s and '60s and to some extent is still going on, and we have a profoundly different public sense of what language to use and about the unacceptability of public discrimination. The immigration reform files today are almost entirely devoid of racist language and the sort of language that, 100 years ago, was taken for granted. Your...