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...last thing I want to suggest is that having high self-esteem will ensure good luck; there are plenty of self-help books devoted to that nonsense. I do, however, believe that many of us suffer from all too fragile egos and a tendency at self-flagellation...
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S.—500,000 Americans die from heart disease each year and nearly 7 million suffer from the disease, the study’s statistics show...
Meanwhile, Israelis will continue to live in perpetual fear of bodily harm and grievous loss from bombers while Palestinians suffer the consequences of Israel's vengeful reprisals. And mothers like Ibtisam Daragmeh will stare at images of children they thought they knew. Children who, in their "martyrdom videos," hold Kalashnikovs and wear fatigues. Ibtisam's son Mohammed, 19, blew himself up in Jerusalem on March 2, after positioning himself next to a group of women with baby carriages waiting for their husbands to leave a bar mitzvah ceremony. He killed nine other people and injured more than...
BIRTH DEFECTS An Australian study published in March reported that IVF children are twice as likely to suffer birth defects--such as cleft palate, a hole in the heart or kidney problems--as children conceived the usual way. Several earlier studies have shown no differences between the two kinds of babies, so further research is needed. Even if the apparent increase is real, it might not be clear whether the birth defects are caused by the artificial reproductive technology or by whatever underlying problem caused the infertility in the first place...
Second, the case for black reparations moves beyond the historical harm of slavery. The case for black reparations becomes even more salient because present-day African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation...