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...studies show a surge in self-injury in recent years, "we've also seen increased media reports," Nock says. "It could be the media is catching up, but the opposite is also true: as kids hear more about it, it enters into the realm of behaviors in which they can engage...
...laying out the federal criminal complaint, U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald said Blagojevich went far beyond the realm of hard-knuckle politics into a "political-corruption crime spree." The central allegation is that the governor schemed to extort money and jobs for himself and his wife from the Obama transition team in exchange for naming Obama's preferred candidate (unnamed in the charges) to the open Senate seat. The complaint details Blagojevich's attempts to contact intermediaries to the transition, and in one case it shows him soliciting favors from a union official he identifies as an "emissary." All of this alleged...
...Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since has changed my mind...
...behaving well is because we live in a society with important constraints applied through education, through upbringing,” Wrangham said. Haig also noted the importance of judicial restraints to help combat this violence. Yet Braxton, at the end of the night, stressed moving beyond the legal realm. “We often move to policy, sanctions for bad behaviors, incentives for good things. But most of us as individuals don’t have a lot of influence in policy,” Braxton said. “There ought to be social sanctions and social incentives...
...History suggests otherwise. Last week, Jackson defaulted on the $23.5 million he owes for Neverland, the ranch he bought in 1988 and named after the mythical realm of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Jackson has said the ranch was intended to recreate the magical childhood experiences that stardom denied him. "It's like stepping into Oz," he once said. "Once you come in the gates, the outside world does not exist...