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...GOSLING, BBC presenter, in a TV documentary on dying, saying that he euthanized his terminally ill partner "years ago" to relieve his "terrible pain." Police are investigating the claim...
...write a book about children and psychiatric drugs, she too accepted the conventional wisdom that American children are being medicated into numbness. But after extensive interviews with parents, therapists and academics, she made a 180-degree turn. In this impassioned book, the author argues that childhood mental illness is real, widespread and painful to families caught in its grip. Warner believes that statistics about Ritalin's being overprescribed are exaggerated. "Almost no parent takes the issue of psychiatric diagnosis lightly or rushes to 'drug' his or her child," she writes. "Responsible child psychiatrists don't either." Frantic parents try everything...
...using family members and others as nominees and transferring shares in an intricate web of deals through offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens. Thaksin sold Shin Corporation to Temasek Holdings of Singapore in early 2006 for $1.9 billion. The court called that money "ill-gotten wealth." Thaksin claims that all of his assets were earned before he became Prime Minister. (See more photos of protests...
...politics is not what interests Brutus, a married mother of three. She says she holds no ill will toward Préval and hopes that this time the government will listen to what she calls "God's plan for Haiti." She has a notebook full of plans and drawings of a new Haiti, all created through what she calls "intelligent design." Brutus, a Seventh-Day Adventist who works in Miami as a businesswoman, says she has to wait for God's permission to reveal the plans in detail. "Haiti will be a light in the world. What needs...
Even where the distribution was going smoothly, overburdened relief workers weren't always able to explain how and when to eat the cookies, officially referred to as biscuits. Some people scarfed down their entire five-pack quota in a single meal, leaving them feeling ill; others thought they should eat only one pack a day. "There's a lot of confusion out there," said Raymond Chevalier of the Adventist Development & Relief Agency. "But even if people are getting some cookies to supplement any other food they can find, that will keep them going...