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Egeland hopes for a more immediate benefit from her work. "Too often," she says, "personal embarrassment and social stigma are associated with an illness whose cause is beyond the control of the individual." That stigma should be lessened and more people should be encouraged to seek treatment now that scientists have confirmed the source of manic depression can indeed be im blut...
...refs for that game were from Hockey East, a conference which would dearly love to erase the stigma of being an expansion league spun off from the larger ECAC. The Crimson may have grounds for complaint on the ref issue, though on the other hand all the striped-shirts for the Northeastern contest in the Beanpot opener were from the ECAC...
...screening: assessing the opinions of preview audiences to fine-tune movies for consumer appeal. Early audience reaction persuaded the studio to beef up the love interest in Top Gun and rework completely the ending of Pretty in Pink. In the past, extensive additional film work was regarded as a "stigma," says a former Paramount executive. "But Paramount has done it consistently on almost every movie this year, with the exception of Star Trek...
...studies were unrelated, but the conclusions are nearly identical. And the parallel is not a mere coincidence in this era of sexually transmitted diseases and one million adolescent pregnancies a year. The message coming from all sides is clear: stigma and ignorance about sexuality have crippled government response to the most urgent social and health problems facing the country...
...have to admit that the Ivy League does have a stigma, and people might said this is an elitist newspaper," said Frankel. "But it's not in order to make us a closed group. It's a college student forum. Hopefully, it will become an institution...