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Voluntary Madness doesn't have a new prescription for psychiatric treatment.
A century ago, Clifford Beers published A Mind That Found Itself, an autobiographical account of his mental illness and of the abusive treatment of the hospitalized insane. Hailed by pre-eminent psychologist William James, Beers' landmark book sparked a social movement for the reform of insane asylums and led to the founding of the first American outpatient psychiatric clinic, creating an alternative to incarceration for the mentally ill. Psychiatry, psychiatrists, and psychiatric hospitalization-
Fed write-off 2009.
A summary of what's in the major publications. [ more ...
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Israeli leaders are weighing an Egyptian-led cease-fire initiative.
The Wall Street Journal leads its world-wide newsbox with the Israeli mortar shells that were fired at a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip that killed around 30 or 40 Palestinians. Many Palestinians have been seeking refuge at these UN facilities and many of those killed were women and children. As the Palestinian death toll reached 640, Israeli, European, and American officials expressed support for an Egyptian-led initiative to broker a cease-fire. The Washington Post leads with, and the Los Angeles
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I Just Walked Across America
A daily video from Slate V. [ more ...
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Missing Steve Jobs at Macworld.
Just before the holidays, Apple announced that CEO Steve Jobs would not deliver the keynote address at Macworld, the annual conference that he's long used as a platform for his flashiest product announcements. The company's terse press release made Apple-watchers suspicious about the company's motives. Jobs, a cancer survivor, hasn't looked great lately—he's skinny, his voice sounds thin, and at recent events he has, uncharacteristically, given much of the stage time to subordinates. Last week, an
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How many albinos are there in Tanzania?
Three men armed with machetes killed an 8-year-old albino boy in Burundi last week and are believed to have smuggled his limbs to Tanzania, where witch doctors use albino body parts for potions. At least 35 albinos were killed in Tanzania in 2008, prompting police officials to set up an emergency hot line and a program to distribute free cell phones to all albinos. How many albinos are there in Tanzania? [ more ...
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The FDIC sells failed IndyMac Bank too soon—and for too little.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday agreed to sell IndyMac, a failed bank it took over last July, to a group of sharp Wall Street operators. They're paying about $15 billion, leaving the FDIC with a loss of about $9 billion on the bank. The government will probably be glad to get rid of IndyMac after just eight months, as it would like to unload all the other failed companies and bad assets the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve has amassed. But there's reason to think they should
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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA.
The puzzler of the hour: Why is Barack Obama picking Leon Panetta, a former congressman and White House official with no intelligence experience, to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency? [ more ...
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Sanjay Gupta is a sweet choice for surgeon general.
It is a measure of TV journalism's unhealthy self-regard that Wolf Blitzer launched today's edition of The Situation Room (CNN) with a story that one of his colleagues, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, might have a new job. [ more ...
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When politicians declare war on something, it's not usually a good sign.
Jonathan Martin of Politico reports that Joe Biden declared "we're at war," when talking about the current economic crisis with a group of congressional leaders yesterday. Biden's spokeswoman said that the vice president-elect was making the case that passing the stimulus bill will require members of Congress to join in the same spirit of cooperation that reigned just after the 9/11 attacks. [ more ...
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