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...women came to reason. But just in case reason did not suffice, they thought to mention the possibility of a massive lawsuit against the American Psychiatric Association, charging it with violating the civil rights of all women. The meeting was "very heated," according to its affable chairman, Psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, and in the end reason prevailed: "masochistic personality disorder," a red flag to feminist scholars for at least two decades, will not be an official diagnosis of American psychiatry after all. Instead, the proposed category will be known as "self-defeating personality disorder...
...your story on the cigarette makers' attempt to diversify, you mention the spate of product-liability cases [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Nov. 18]. After having to practice respiratory therapy, I am no friend of the tobacco industry. But the suit against R.J. Reynolds brought by the family of the man who smoked two to three packs a day is going too far. People must take responsibility for their actions. Susan E. Beerman Sandusky, Ohio...
...repeats such monkey business, this time with illustrations. Morris announces his intention "to treat the body surface as if it were a strange landscape." In practice, this means giving separate chapters and full photographic uncoverage to such geographic features as eyes, ears, nose, neck, shoulders and belly, not to mention those areas that the lads of Monty Python's Flying Circus once referred to as "the naughty bits...
...refuel a hijacked plane unless terrorists first released all passengers aboard. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility for a number of particularly heinous terrorist crimes...
...five different times to see if she could at least get me to a doctor to get me on birth control," recounts Nancee Mason, 19, from Pontiac, Mich., who has a nine-month-old son. "But my mom is the kind of person who, if you mention sex, she turns all red and clams...