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...study's authors have shown this assumption is wrong in most cases. Extrapolating from nine case studies of anorexics in Germany and Boston, they concluded that such suicides are not simply a call for help gone wrong, but that anorexics are genuinely determined to die when they attempt to kill themselves. Some of the disturbing means the nine patients profiled used included jumping in front of moving trains, ingesting dangerous household cleaners and setting oneself on fire. These patients also tended to isolate themselves before their suicide attempt, most likely in order to reduce the possibility they would receive life...
...sorry to see "Australia Says Sorry" on the cover of TIME. Not that it is wrong to say sorry for injustices when they have occurred. However, there is no proof that the "stolen generations" were actually stolen from their families. Authorities in Australia have been unable to name even 10 stolen children. New PM Rudd has grabbed at an opportunity to get global attention by blaming Australians for injustices that are a myth. Former PM John Howard expressed regret but did not say "sorry" because there was, and still is, no proof that Aboriginal children were stolen. Welfare organizations only...
...much different conception of the National Review’s purpose: “It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” That Buckley was dead wrong on pretty much every major historical issue of his time—McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam—seems to matter little to his swooning acolytes. The National Review has floundered some in recent years, but what holds it together is an almost cultish devotion to the personality...
...Guilt is the force that enables you to understand that you’ve done someone wrong,” said Todd...
...many that makes Tuesday's troubles all the more unsettling in a national context. Then again, if a number of things went wrong in Florida, just as many things actually went right: except for the initial substation breaker, the system responded - and was back up in a matter of hours - as it should have, perhaps preventing a more serious outage that could have lasted well into the dark night. "This certainly raised a red flag about Florida's vulnerability, if not the nation's," says Twomey. "But in the end the system worked as it was supposed to." In other...