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...drive away is Mogadishu's only public library, a privately funded institution set up eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First...
According to the student handbook, maliciously tampering with fire alarms, smoke detectors, or fire extinguishers may lead to disciplinary action and even expulsion. It states that students caught may face a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment...
...against the new name, claiming it sounded more alienating than Mental Health Services. She said the term Behavioral Health means one thing to her: “correctional facility.” Putnins also drew attention to the section of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Undergraduate Handbook entitled, “Consultations and Interventions for Behavioral Disturbances Due to Alcohol or Drug Abuse and Psychological Disorders,” which she said prejudices the term “behavioral health” and links it to the threat of punishment by the administration. Although all the panelists...
Even for the most resilient survivors, however, time can't heal all wounds. "Time only passes," says Russell Friedman, a co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook. "It's action that provides the opportunity for change." Limerick found hers through exercise. Instead of crying during her nightly Marty Robbins sessions, she began exercising to the music. "I was totally out of shape, and I started doing jumping jacks to the mournful song," she recalls. "It felt really good." Limerick continued to lean on her friends but found different ways to be with them. One took her shopping...
...they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered. But, in a twist out of the Socialist Realism handbook, he finds himself becoming a real journalist. After he notices that his fellow diners have filed inaccurate, self-censored stories about an event he attends, Dan writes his own account. Soon ordinary people are bringing him heart-breaking tales of injustice and corruption in hopes he can help. When...