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Shannon E. Cleary ’12, an OSAPR volunteer who helped organize the Project, said that telling stories through artwork can help survivors of sexual violence to “let out all the emotions ranging from guilt to fear, from regret to anger, from helplessness to hope for the future” in an anonymous and supportive environment...
...Once people realize what the project is all about, I think—or at least hope—that they realize the extent of this problem and feel inspired to help,” said Cleary, adding that such help could come in the form of volunteering, talking to friends about the Clothesline Project, or even making the choice not to laugh at a joke that makes light of sexual violence...
...Florida rose from 2,780 in 2006 to 3,317 in 2007, and then to 3,750 in 2008. The last figure is equivalent to about 10 reported deaths a day. That's more than the number of fatalities from street drugs like cocaine and heroin. It doesn't help that in Florida, you don't need to be a doctor to run a pain-management clinic, Lamberti says. "You need a background check to get a liquor license - you can't be a convicted felon and open up a bar - but you can be a convicted felon and open...
...every month just to get his medication. He says he is prescribed medicine for chronic neck pain stemming from a forklift injury but cannot get the medicine he needs anywhere near his home. He won't divulge what he is prescribed. "I'd rather not say, but it's helping me," he says. "I'm not a junkie." The medicine allows him to keep working as an excavator, he says. "They help people that can't get medication that they need," he says. "Thank God there are places like this." Though he agrees that some people take advantage...
...bodyguards, while his home is surrounded by about 500 heavily armed men. Still, he admitted to the BBC on Saturday that he has "no real levers of power." On Saturday, he called for the U.N. to send peacekeepers to Kyrgyzstan to prevent further bloodshed. But his calls for foreign help are likely to prove futile. Both Russia and the U.S. have promised aid to the government that toppled him. (See pictures from the revolt that overthrew Basiyev...