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...that such intensely regulated environments as religious sects and military bases had higher suicide rates. Which makes you wonder what he would say about a society that decides to regulate suicide--that actually allows you to apply for it like a driver's license. Would that society experience a spate of "contagious" suicides, as Durkheim might theorize today...
Your article on the spate of terrible shootings in American high schools addressed the wrong issue [SOCIETY, March 19]. Children the world over are exposed to bullying and teasing, yet they don't all seek revenge through bullets, blood and mayhem. Surely the real issue is the availability of guns. It is more than a coincidence that so many of these tragic stories involve parents who own guns. The presence of guns in the home sends the message to children that violence does indeed solve problems. LOGAN SCOTT Cape Town...
There was a time when divorce was an ugly thing that created unremitting enmity between former spouses and severed ties between fathers and children. Times have changed. Now a spate of unusually cozy celebrity splits is drawing attention to a far different set of templates for divorce...
Mistress Sandy, 25, has been a successful dominatrix for two years. She has a spate of regular customers - 70% of them Chinese, like her - and a reputation as a fierce mistress who will kick and spit you into submission. Raised in Hong Kong, her family doesn't know her occupation. Nor do her three roommates or her boyfriend. "He's traditional Chinese. He wouldn't understand," she says. After high school, she got a job as a secretary at a Hong Kong bank but didn't like it. "I wasn't good at that. I'm good at this...
...things--from an expansive push into international markets to eBay Autos--will need to go right. If eBay does keep growing at its torrid pace, it will amount to more than just the world's leading marketplace. It will stand as convincing evidence that despite the recent spate of bad news, the Internet revolution has changed business once...