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Attention seekers like the Salahis, and before them the Heenes, suffer the opposite delusion: believing that their success in the world of pseudocelebrity insulates them from real-world consequences. In a state of media-induced temporary insanity, you might forget that people could get annoyed at you for faking your kid's balloon accident or that the feds would not laugh off a breach of the President's security as a hoot for a reality show. You close your eyes and hear the crowd cheering for an encore when they're actually gathering torches and pitchforks...
...course, we recognize that larger academic assignments such as papers and projects will inevitably pile up at the end of the semester. Yet students suffer even more from a shorter reading period because professors are not allowed to assign paper deadlines during exam period. This means that all papers must be completed before the end of reading period, rather than having this work more spread out. In light of the condensed reading period, professors should be given the flexibility to set paper deadlines during exam period—a paper due during exam period is much preferable to a premature...
...that his baby's death from tetanus has sated the Archangel Gabriel; therefore, he thinks, I must be safe from death's swift messenger. Two weeks later the print setter croaks, his pancreas corroded from lead poisoning. Dark, but hardly atypical of Tales from Djakarta, in which the characters suffer awful and lonely fates, ranging from sexual abuse to execution. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...case of the health-care debate, the equivalence of dynamism with unregulated markets falls even flatter. It is not merely the old, poor, and vulnerable who lack access to quality insurance and care today. Those who suffer from the high costs and limited scope of the system are seemingly some of the most “vital” groups in the country: working-class families and young, self-employed entrepreneurs. Those who are un-wealthy are at high risk to be unhealthy, but those who merely work hard outside government and corporate safety nets also need a powerful dose...
...unexpected ways. A counselor sits next to every survivor who testifies - at one point during the Duch trial, a judge even ordered a witness to see a psychiatrist, according to Sotheara Chhim, a Cambodian psychiatrist and director of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO). An estimated 14% of the population suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and Sotheara Chhim says the number of people who suffer from depression or anxiety is likely much higher than that. Though information about mental health is still limited in rural Cambodia, "the trial brought out a lot," Sotheara says...