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...requirements," Tam Binh's director Trung continues. "In so many cases, they are not totally or really abandoned - they still have parents out there and sometimes even other family who come to visit them. For example, the mother may have been sent to jail or is in a mental institution, or the parents may have leprosy - so we cannot let them go." Some of the children also have physical or mental handicaps that make them harder to place. In the end, only about 30% of Tam Binh's children eventually get adopted. The same situation applies to the rest...
...guys’ faces. They had a couple of really easy goals in transition.” The Crimson committed 10 penalties, resulting in 10:30 of box time for the team and suggesting that the losing streak has also resulted in a bit of mental fatigue. “The effort was not an issue,” Flood said. “We just needed to maintain composure. We’re making mistakes as a team.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...years--in addition to seeing patients and doing research, plus his gig as a staff writer for the New Yorker--Groopman began to intensively examine how doctors think and how they get sidetracked from the truth. He learned that about 80% of medical mistakes are the result of predictable mental traps, or cognitive errors, that bedevil all human beings. Only 20% are due to technical mishaps--mixed-up test results or hard-to-decipher handwriting--that typically loom larger in patients' minds and on television shows...
...Escher, Bach 28 years ago. Purely by chance, it was given to Hofstadter for Christmas one year, and he photographed it and put the picture in his book. I told Hofstadter, who loves this kind of spectacular oddity--it's evidence, maybe, that something of his mental pattern made its way into his writing, then into my sister, on into her art and finally back to its original source, Hofstadter himself, thus closing the circle. "That is hilarious," he says. "It is really a strange loop...
...with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...