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...therapist in Japan is a shepherd, prodding straying lambs back toward the flock. Mental health means to live with and for others. To some American observers, it may seem that methods of both child rearing and therapy push people in Japan toward a pathologically dependent role. But, of course, the freewheeling, individualistic American, with a disposable mate and two parents stashed away in Florida, may look a bit odd to the Japanese...
...year and professors say the measure would make the current level of research prohibitive by boosting animal prices tenfold. It might also stem completely some areas of research, because breeders specialize in smaller dogs, such as beagles, while cardiovascular research, for example requires larger dogs such as German shepherd or retrievers...
Father sits, catatonic, beside the refrigerator or guzzles hooch that he hides inside a big toy duck. Mother bitterly complains that she has sacrificed a literary career to have a family. A baby sitter reads aloud a parody of Mommie Dearest. A German shepherd eats an infant whole and barks for more. Is it any wonder that this family's little girl (or boy: the parents are too polite to peek) grows up confused...
...managed to escape from a labor camp in the Rumanian-occupied Ukraine. He was in effect already an orphan; his mother had been killed by the Nazis, and his father failed to escape with him. For two years the boy wandered the inhospitable countryside, working as a shepherd, fleeing human contact. "I knew that if the peasants discovered I was Jewish, they would kill me," he later recalled...
Reported by James Shepherd/ London and William Stewart/ Beirut