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...molestation--imprecise figures made even more so by the molesters' incentive to shade the truth. "Certain stimuli early in life seem to fuse the ideas of childhood and sexual arousal," says Fran Ferder, a psychologist and Catholic nun who teaches theology and psychology at Seattle University. The early onset of the condition argues against the popular idea that priests who abuse kids are driven to the behavior by the Catholic Church's celibacy rules. Whether the church attracts existing pedophiles--who see it as a way to be close to the children they seek or, alternatively, to bury their troubling...
...haven’t even actually reached my 20s, but it’s not surprising that early quarter-life crisis onset would occur at Harvard. The people are stressed, competitive and selfish. It’s hard to know who’s a friend and who simply has an agenda. It’s hard to know if you’re taking advantage of all that the University offers, if you’re meeting parental expectations, if you’ve set your standards too high or not high enough...
That was the question on the table last week with news of the birth of the first baby ever bred to avoid the risk of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. There may be only a dozen families in the world that carry this particular gene mutation, which causes dementia and death, often by age 45. One 33-year-old woman knew all too well what the disease does to a brain--and a family. Her father died at 42; her sister began declining at 38 and within five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began...
...Slam-Dunk Contest. Or I should say, should have won the NBA Slam-Dunk Contest. I don’t want to go into all of the details now, suffice it to say that it didn’t help that the debacle coincided with the onset of World...
...annual event starts today with a panel discussion including Emme, a well-known “plus-size” model, who will discuss how stereotypes propogated by the entertainment industry can contribute to the onset of eating disorders in some people...