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...article "How We Get Labeled [JAN. 20], John Cloud stated that the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) helps categorize "all the ways America is nuts." Since it is no longer politically correct to make racial slurs or joke about physical handicaps, it would appear that the last bastion of acceptable derision is mental illness. By poking fun at rare conditions such as fetishism, this article ends up stigmatizing the millions who suffer from the entire range of mental disorders defined in the DSM and trivializing the scientific advances for such disorders...
...currently tracked, the company says. Nationwide, there are more than 5,000 broker-dealers employing some 675,000 brokers. "Firms are under increasing pressure to be more and more watchful," says Jaime Punishill, an analyst who covers financial-services technologies at Forrester Research. "That's hard with a mostly manual system. If firms can automate cost-effectively, then it's a way to solve this problem...
...height of the cultural Revolution, 12 million "young intellectuals"?teenagers who made the mistake of attending secondary school?were exiled to the Chinese hinterland. There the sons and daughters of the urban bourgeoisie were re-educated by the virtuous peasantry, chiefly through backbreaking manual labor. The victims had no idea if they would ever be allowed to go home again or if they would spend the rest of their days shoving an antique plow through country...
More new hires are demanding a sweet severance deal up front. "The manual probably says you get one week's pay for every year of service, but that's not practical" with no-fault layoffs, Bayer says. You should get a flat six months' pay, along with company-paid health insurance and career counseling. None of this is as good as cash. But no one needs to tell you to get as much of that...
...personality disorder not otherwise specified" (the last); there are more than 350 in all. Hence this 943-page doorstop is one of the most important books you've never heard of. And the inscrutable process of writing it is starting up again. The American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.), the manual's publisher, recently began planning a giant review of the book. The new edition, the fifth--called DSM V--will appear around 2010. Evidently, it takes a long time to figure out all the ways America is nuts...