Word: stigmas
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...read at home before beginning school. Still, I am just as likely today to walk into a doorjamb as to make it through a doorway successfully. I am, however, an imaginative, practical problem solver as well as ambidextrous. My creativity far outweighs dyslexia's negatives. Let's hope the stigma is lifted for all of us who see the world a bit differently. PENNY TASSIN Linden, Texas...
...mystery--and perhaps some of the stigma--may finally be starting to lift. The more researchers learn about dyslexia, the more they realize it's a flaw not of character but of biology--specifically, the biology of the brain. No, people with dyslexia are not brain damaged. Brain scans show their cerebrums are perfectly normal, if not extraordinary. Dyslexics, in fact, seem to have a distinct advantage when it comes to thinking outside...
...might help broaden a resume, but checking "black" has the effect of leapfrogging me over many comparable applicants gunning for a prestigious school or job. Although I'm sure my race improved my odds of being admitted to Yale and hired at TIME, I don't carry around the "stigma" that Justice Clarence Thomas claims all blacks do because of affirmative action, wondering if they received a benefit based on merit or race. For me, the question has never been "Do I belong?" but rather "Since I'm here in part to contribute diversity, how do I do that...
...their causes or supported things - like virulent anti-communism - that he didn't. Hitchens has a more difficult time explaining away the list of 35 "crypto-communists" Orwell gave to British intelligence in 1948; the defense that no one was harmed by Orwell's revelations does not remove the stigma of naming names. In any case, such esteemed contemporaries as V.S. Pritchett and Anthony Powell have pronounced him nothing less than a "saint." That's a bit much for Hitchens, who prefers to say that Orwell "took some of the supposedly Christian virtues and showed how they could be 'lived...
...prevent mandatory testing by employers. And many companies are loath to disclose any stats: imagine how a food-service company's high infection rate could frighten investors and customers. But Nicky Newton-King, the J.S.E.'s deputy CEO, hopes a discourse in financial reports will help remove the AIDS stigma and lead to better prevention and treatment...