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...East London conference sponsored by the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an organization that brings such people together to exchange personal stories and coping strategies. Drawing on research by Dutch psychiatrists indicating that up to one in 25 people hears voices, HVN seeks to recast the phenomenon as a normal experience, encouraging members to maintain a dialogue with their voices so they can live peacefully with and even appreciate their presence. Studies suggest that these auditory hallucinations emerge following traumas ranging from the death of a loved one to outright abuse, so HVN encourages members to address the phenomenon with these...
...when the doorbell rings, a little late. Clooney hit traffic, his assistant called to say, on his way back from visiting his girlfriend in Las Vegas. He's wearing faded jeans, black laced boots and a zip-up sweater, and he looks less like a movie star than a normal, un-Botoxed 46-year-old unmarried guy coming over for dinner, but he also looks like he's excited to be here because wherever he is, George Clooney's also there. He hasn't brought any wine, and I worry that this guesting thing is just not going to work...
...play expected in Division I basketball. As a high school star who towered above the competition both literally and figuratively, Markley has had to learn how to use her body to her advantage and to play defense without the easy block as a backup plan. On top of these normal adjustments, Markley suffered a concussion in October that kept her off the court for more than five weeks. During that time, she watched from the sidelines as her teammates learned plays and found their places in the new system. Her year away from basketball was already forcing her to work...
...People in Indiana don’t get involved in the entertainment industry,” Riverton says. “They become doctors or lawyers or find other normal jobs. I never even made the connection that you could do that for a living...
...Love Vision, a store in Ankawa that makes wedding videos, said about 80 percent of his clients were from Baghdad (which he left in 1995), and everyone had suffered some kind of tragedy. Indeed, half of his own family has been kidnapped or killed since 2003. "That's normal in Iraq," he said...