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...scapegoating of gay people for political gain has got to stop. To varying degrees, gay people, particularly those in their teens, face a sometimes daily barrage of harassment, intimidation and threats of physical harm. The suicide rate for gay and lesbian youth is three times the norm, making the quality of their young lives sadly obvious. Every year we receive tens of thousands of calls on our toll-free telephone hotline (1-888-THE-GLNH) from people who need information, peer counseling or referrals. What happened to Shepard could happen to any of us. And someday it might. BRAD BECKER...
...audience member said she saw the potential for harm in differentiating masculine and feminine...
Then there's the danger that kava could actually do harm. Doctors know that heavy use over even a few months can cause temporary yellowing and flaking of the skin. The effects of longer use are unknown. Psychological addiction is a risk even if physical addiction isn't. Also worrisome is the danger of adverse drug interaction. A kava user in Georgia who had been taking the sedative Xanax had blackouts when he switched from the drug to the root...
...disclosure. And I credit Diana with that." One sign that the malady is fully emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease of the week" topic on recent episodes of the teen-oriented TV series 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. And now come two major books: Bodily Harm (Hyperion) by Conterio and Lader, based on their successful treatment program, and A Bright Red Scream (Viking), in which journalist Marilee Strong provides a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury...
...Bodily Harm is not meant for the layman. Instead, it's more a workbook for the initiated, complete with checklists and common Q&A advice for injurers, their family and therapists. Strong's effort, by contrast, is a richly reported and achingly well-written account that benefits from a reporter's storytelling skills. As she profiles a range of injurers--from Andrew, a star chemistry student at a British university, to Fran, a wealthy suburban New York matron--Strong deftly crafts not a freak parade but a sad march of the familiar...