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Four years later, Frazier is well again. He has worked for two years on an elite longshoreman's crew that cleans up oil spills, and served for a year as president of his union local. He commutes to work from a new apartment, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter. Frazier owes his stunning turnaround to medication that has brought his mental illness under control, but also to an underutilized treatment known as psychosocial rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once...
Miriam Kravitz was in a locked psychiatric ward lying naked in a puddle of her own urine when she got a career idea that would benefit herself as well as people like her. She enrolled first in college and then in law school while homeless. In 1985, she started INCube (short for incubation), a New York City agency run by the recovering mentally ill that helps others start businesses. "We do business as well as or better than the mainstream," says Kravitz. "It's a big secret." INCube has helped start 300 businesses over a decade and counts 176 still...
...belief system" still contains "the idea that people with schizophrenia never get better." Insurance companies have been slow to be convinced that these programs work and will ultimately save money. And many employers still resist hiring the mentally ill. American Postcard's Castaldo recalls telling a fellow businessman "how well I'm doing with handicapped people." The man was interested, Castaldo relates, "but when I mentioned mental health, a wall came down...
...successful in the movies? These were among the disquieting questions raised last week when JULIANNA MARGULIES rebuffed a $27 million offer to remain on ER for two more seasons. After six years of playing nurse Carol Hathaway, Margulies is intent on pursuing her film career. "We wish her well and know that she will be successful in all her endeavors," said ER executive producer John Wells. Perhaps Wells hasn't seen The Newton Boys, Margulies' last film, which earned a total of $10 million, or less than half of $27 million...
...Well, to begin with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties Union so eager for a test case to overturn a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution that they promised to pay the expenses of the prosecution! The A.C.L.U. advertised for a volunteer and found one John Scopes, football coach and science teacher, willing to take...