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...That's not what American defense planners want to hear. With wars simmering in Iraq and Afghanistan, and potential conflicts looming in North Korea and Iran-to say nothing of China's military buildup-allies are a must for the U.S. In that context, says Adam Ward of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, some U.S. strategists would like to transform Japan into "the U.K. of Asia"-a regional power on which the U.S. can rely not only for diplomatic support, but for military assistance all over the globe. It's a nice idea, but Ward insists that...
...Prescriber information on the SSRIs in America contains an extraordinary sentence missing from the versions seen by Australian doctors - extraordinary in the context of a debate in which advocates of the drugs assert that depressed people who aren't treated are at heightened risk of contemplating and attempting suicide. "The average risk of such events in patients receiving antidepressants was 4%," the U.S. warning reads, "twice the placebo risk of 2%." In other words, drugs meant to stop depressed people from getting even more depressed or killing themselves may double their chances of doing just that. For the skeptics, that...
...SSRIs, in his view, are a story of a "massively successful capitalistic enterprise" - and the idea that in countries like Australia there's still a multitude of people with undiagnosed depression should be considered in that context. These people are "not clinically depressed, anyway," he says. "The drug companies are setting forth an unrealistic vision of what it is to be human. They're defining normal stresses and worries as pathological, and the only reason they're doing it is that it leads to more business...
...artist selection process—the single most difficult part of our job.Consulting tour data, name recognition, and our counterparts at other colleges, the HCC evaluates a myriad of prospective artists in a matrix relating venue sizes and ticket sale levels. Artists deemed viable are then considered in the context of both national and Harvard-specific music preferences. The resulting “short list” is ultimately constrained by venue and artist availability. Moving forward from Wyclef, we believe that the most important and perhaps most difficult area to improve is the way in which we communicate with...
...fact, members told me when I expressed my concerns, clubs today were more progressive than ever, which is sort of true: the last couple presidents of the Spee have been minorities, and the punch classes are more socio-economically and racially diverse than they used to be. In the context of the punch process and even of the clubs in general, the idea that the Spee was progressive almost made sense.But if I widened my frame of reference just a little bit to include people outside the circle of clubs, that idea became ridiculous. This is what I could never...