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Divorce, Chinese style, more and more resembles that of the decadent bourgeois West. Though there is still a stigma attached to breaking up a marriage in the puritanical People's Republic, a recent and dramatically liberalized law is sending record numbers of unhappy mates in search of freedom. In the first half of 1981, courts in Peking received a total of 3,444 divorce suits, a 72.5% increase over the same period the year before. In Shanghai, according to a recent survey, a single district granted 50 divorces in only six months, nothing much by U.S. standards but very...
...their part, minority students consider affirmative action essential. "It's a question of having minority members on the Review with some stigma or of having virtually no minority members at all," says Black Leader Cecil McNab. The lower grades of minority students, he adds, are the result of subtle discrimination, "not underachievement." Minority students believe that the Review should be a voluntary organization, as it is at Yale. Otherwise, many simply will not participate in what is seen as a white-dominated system of judgment. Says Ray Hernandez, a latino: "There's a lot of pressure...
...only people who have eating disorders, Carni notes. Occasionally men who have become hooked on the binge-purge syndrome to make weight allowances for crew, boxing or wresting will seek her help. "It is extremely hard for men to seek counseling because there is such a stigma attached to bulimia," Carni says. "And everyone who comes to me thinks that their problem is the most bizarre and that they are the only people in the world with the disorder. I guess that men think they are the minority of the minority...
...veterinarian: "There's a lot of macho in dog persons. Dogs are bigger, they're a display. People like to give them hearty slaps and decorate them with collars. Three years ago, about 5% of my men patients were cat owners. Now it's 25%. The stigma is gone. They've learned a man can own a cat and still be a man." Peter Borchelt, a behavioralist at Manhattan's Animal Medical Center, wryly points out that you can own a cat and even be an American. While the dog may be the unofficial national...
...years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...