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...nudist press published the results of a five-year study of children raised by nudists. Growing Up Without Shame concluded, rather expansively, that "the viewing of the unclothed human body, far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign or to actually provide benefits"--typically indifference to such inevitabilities as puberty, sags and wrinkles. Dr. David Fassler, a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, says such claims haven't been validated by independent psychiatric researchers. But a visit to the camp yielded anecdotal support. An 11-year-old girl described--in disarming detail...
...chosen in 1995 to rebuild the organization's VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives, Dichter had his agents hide explosives in telephone booths and car-seat headrests; he pushed them to cut planning time for operations from months to mere...
Stone personally attended the negotiating sessions and offered unprecedented concessions to the neighborhood, including a $1 million parcel of land to be used for a park, $300,000 for neighborhood projects and a five-year moratorium on local construction...
During her five-year tenure she had bolstered technical and special education in the district, but she had failed to solve the fundamental problems facing the city’s schools—and her departure left Cambridge without a merger plan or a leader to guide the district...
...winning the NCAA championship, Harvard’s first in any sport since women’s lacrosse in 1990 and Radcliffe’s only national championship other than its previous crew title in 1973. Along the way, the Black and White toppled Brown’s five-year reign atop the Eastern Sprints throne...