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...growing trend of demonizing nuts only fuels anxiety, Christakis says. Instilling in the general public the idea that nuts are a "clear and present danger" does little beyond heightening panic. "There are kids with severe allergies, and they need to be taken seriously," he says, "but the problem with a disproportionate response is that it feeds the epidemic...
...that “implementation by the Romney and Patrick administration appears to have really shortchanged some of the key services, particularly mental health.” State Representative Alice K. Wolf agreed with Rosman’s reimbursement concerns, saying that state officials should be aware of the problem.“[Health] Secretary [Judy Ann] Bigby knows this because I had a meeting with her last May, and she said, what we really need to do is raise the reimbursement rate,” Wolf said. “They have subsequently cut them twice...
...candidate was unimpressed. "We are not going to solve the problem of 12 million immigrants here 50 immigrants at a time," Obama said that October. "I think this is much more for show than having a practical effect. We need comprehensive immigration reform." (See pictures of immigrants in America...
...Sarkozy's seemingly lax solution to tackling France's car-burning bonanza hardly reflects the gravity and scope of the problem. Nearly 43,000 cars were torched in France over the whole of 2007 - an average of almost 118 per day. Alliot-Marie stressed that the rise in the number of burnt cars on New Year's Eve 2008 came at the end of a year in which the total number of autos set alight in the first 11 months had decreased 15%, compared with the same period in 2007. But while annual figures may fluctuate, they've generally swelled...
...problem with Nightmare in Bangkok, and books like it, is that it is hard to sympathize with the narrator. Botts, who is eventually transferred to a U.S. prison and granted parole after spending less than five years at Klong Prem, is not a lovable rogue but a thief and heroin trafficker, and his time behind bars prompts little self-reflection. Seeming to sense this, he closes the book with a lame attempt to recast his dismal life as a parable about overcoming addiction, with the suggestion that he should never have been jailed. I agree with him that criminalizing drug...