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...those in the developing world. On campuses throughout the U.S., that has become the conventional wisdom: free trade, which is the motor of globalization, drives down wages, promotes sweatshop and child labor and is, broadly speaking, a conspiracy on the part of rapacious corporate managers and wealthy shareholders to grind the faces of the poor...
...Holocaust survivors - compared to barely a third of Israel's over-60s generally. A similar imbalance was found in the country's other mental hospitals. Decades of using antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol and Thorazine hadn't worked. In the lobby of the survivors' ward, patients still shake uncontrollably and grind their jaws grotesquely from the side effects of such drugs. Barak changed the diagnosis of schizophrenia attached to most of the 120 survivors in his ward to "long-term post-traumatic psychosis." With Szor, he treated the patients using animal therapy, allowing people previously unable to communicate to build relationships...
...improved social life, of course, has as much extrinsic as intrinsic value. A student body with better options on weekends—a campus that knows it has a dependable place to look forward to socializing in—may well be sprightlier in its approach to the daily grind of getting work done. At any rate, it will at least be happier, and that in itself warrants an FDE. Any takers...
...could be a real grind-it-out comeback. Although consumers have been pretty stalwart, considering, about doing the patriotic thing and spending their money, the job market is still a very scary place, and the emotional pallor of the post-Sept. 11 world still means a damper on traffic at the malls. (Just ask retailers this winter. Or better yet, look at their discounts.) Consumers, accounting for two thirds of U.S. economic activity and generally very conscientious about it, have pulled us through one potential economic crisis after another through the 90s, and they can't be blamed...
...Particularly when the stock market seems to have settled into its own slow grind. The dramatic run-ups of post-Sept. 11 took a huge bite of 2001's stock losses, but all three major indexes still posted losses for the second straight year. Another three bears in 2002 would make it the first three-year losing streak since 1941. And more than a few forecasters - seeing disappointing corporate earnings, still-shell-shocked capital spenders and languid consumer demand - are predicting just that...