Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommates who keep us company as we pack through the night, wisely advising us to remove stacks of textbooks from our suitcases, lightening our physical and mental loads...
...currently working on a film on a Mississippi family that is struggling with mental illness, as well as a film on Hillary Rodham Clinton's race for the New York senate seat...
...hang himself. One day he ripped out the gas wall heater and flicked his lighter. Brenda survived by diving out a second-floor window. "Fire is a weird color when you're inside it," she recalls. Years later, though burn scars cover her body, medication has controlled her mental illness and she has become a part-time "life coach" at the Village. She rents her own apartment and hopes to become a writer. "I've found that it's not necessary to have a crappy life," she says. Bobby Frazier and a lot of other consumers would agree...
...tailing someone through cyberspace may be far more revealing of personal details. "If you go to sites about mental health or pornography, that information could be subpoenaed in a civil suit or custody battle and used against you," warns Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy advocacy group. That's why the Federal Trade Commission convened a workshop last week to explore the privacy implications of Web profiling. "Not only are privacy policies difficult to locate online," says ftc chairman Robert Pitofsky, "in almost all cases users don't even know this is happening...
...since he was 12. In 1997 he was found to have depression and anger-management problems and put on Prozac, which he later stopped taking. Critics of the sentence are disturbed that Kinkel's illness was not given due weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. But Jennifer Alldredge, a student shot by Kinkel...