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...unforgettable scene," says To. Using his own funds and donations, To has been helping these children continue their schooling, giving them a chance to free themselves from the taint of having a parent--or both parents, in some cases--die of AIDS...
...FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP-GETTY IMAGES SPORTS MECCA The city has no mosques. Plans to build one near the airport fizzled; the Orthodox church claims it will taint the skyline...
...risqué nature of many of Levine’s findings would be enough to taint the girls’ reputations permanently. When writing the book she thus took on a precautionary approach, changing names, addresses and other small details to ensure that none of the girls’ true identities would be given away...
...three years" to ensure that it is. Even internally, Total is still struggling with the implications of its new mission. Back in Milan, Dairon spends 45 minutes talking about Burma; a continuing black mark on the company's international reputation. Total insists it has done nothing wrong, but the taint of working with an especially despotic regime and allegations about forced labor raise difficult questions for the firm. "Can a company invest in a country that is considered not democratic?" Dairon asks. "Should it substitute for international organizations in judging a country in the first place?" He opens...
...society it is still the case that mental disorders may be misunderstood, seen as frightening, belittled or treated as a moral taint rather than an illness. Such stigmatizing attitudes are entirely wrong. Modern science makes it quite clear that depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders are diseases of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, mental disorders have their roots in the interaction of genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Just like these other medical disorders, the symptoms reflect abnormal physiology—in the case of mental disorders, abnormal physiology...