Word: stigmas
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...really encouraged us to pursue this stuff and not to be intimidated by the Harvard stigma against performance as a career," said David W. Liang '00, one of the four students chosen and this year's composer for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' annual show...
...with 12 chapters in the New York City area, is a program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example...
...though Ajudua says there is "no stigma" to being a mixed-race person on campus, she hasn't "identified with the black community...
...WHAT THEY WANTED] --LENDERS say consumers have abused the system, using bankruptcy as a debt-avoidance tactic. The stigma is gone...
Once cloning loses its stigma, the urge to tinker with the genes of offspring may not be far behind. As Cambridge molecular biologist Graeme Mitchison says, "We can all be beautiful--no baldness, no wimps with glasses, no knobby knees." Olivia Judson, author of a forthcoming book called Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation, begs to differ: "If there is such hostility to genetically modified soya, it doesn't bode well for genetically modified people...