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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...psychiatry: "There are no diagnoses in psychiatry. Only umbrella terms for observed patterns of complaint, groupings of symptoms given names and oversimplified, and assigned what are probably erroneous causes because those erroneous causes can be medicated. And then both the drug and the supposed disease are made legitimate, and thus the profession as well as the patient, legitimized too, by those medical words going hand in hand to the insurance company: 'Diagnosis,' and 'It's not your fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman, Three Mental Hospitals | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag. If someone just gave that stuff to me and I didn't have any of the associations that went along with punk rock or the angst, do I think that I would just go, Hey, I like this song, as opposed to "Umbrella" by Rihanna? I'm not sure. I think I would probably go with "Umbrella." I'm probably going to get shot for saying that, but it's the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein who was responsible for Somalia's one significant piece of statesmanship in the last year. He entered into a peace deal with Somali Islamic factions that have come together under the umbrella Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia. Somalis greeted it with a shred of hope, even though the move was mostly symbolic. The Islamist campaign is now being run by another group, al-Shabaab, which has made a steady comeback since Ethiopian troops pushed them from the capital, Mogadishu, on Christmas Eve two years ago. (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: Warlords, Pirates and the Politics of Morass | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

While the older, umbrella vaccine has proven effective in the past, Dr. Lo says it may be losing its potency as newer strains of the virus spread around the region. A new study by University of Hong Kong microbiologists of a virus outbreak earlier this year found that chickens that had been vaccinated against the H5 virus had only one-quarter as many antibodies as those vaccinated in 2001. Yuen Kwok-yung, head of the University's microbiology department and an expert on avian flu, warned recently that the vaccine may be approaching total failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong's Bird Flu Vaccine Failing? | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...switch to turn on the projectors. The event also featured a short presentation by the student group The Harvard College Human Rights Advocates (HCHRA), in which members read articles from the declaration and described how they had attempted to uphold those rights for others. The HCHRA is an undergraduate umbrella organization that promotes international human rights advocacy and research. “Especially given the horrible weather conditions, there was a nice turnout and everyone was enthusiastic,” said Robert J. Ross ’09, vice president of advocacy for HCHRA and a singer with the Veritones...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exhibit Exalts Human Rights | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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