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Prejudice. The foremost reason that awareness and understanding are so weak in our society is that there is still quite a stigma carried by anyone labelled "mentally ill." Almost everyone at times, and some folks all of the time, will regard anyone labelled "mentally ill" with an uneasy fear of craziness. But the fact that a brain may fail to regulate a neurochemical at optimal levels has nothing whatsoever to do with personal worth or character evaluation. If anything, the mentally ill endure such huge obstacles to ordinary functioning that any particular level of achievement requires exceptional fortitude, striving...
...council policy dictates that each grant must be considered on its individual merits, without regard to the running total of council funds already allocated...
...prominently labor unions and Ross Perot's movement -- see, not entirely wrongly, the U.S. economy being hurt by growing foreign competition, and view NAFTA, less logically, as the latest in a succession of what Perot calls "dumb trade agreements" that have taken a grievous toll of American jobs. Proponents regard the pact as an unavoidable necessity if the U.S. is going to compete with the trade blocs forming in Europe and Asia. Rejection, they argue, would be a futile and dangerous attempt to wall off the U.S. from a global economy that no longer shows much respect for national borders...
Once we begin to understand that anorexia is a serious illness, perhaps we will overcome the urge to regard emaciated bodies as the epitome of beauty...
History has shown that Americans have short term memories with regard to Latin American issues. What U.S. citizen remembers and can fully justify Operation "Just" Cause? Can anyone--except perhaps a federal agent--truly say that they know what happened in Nicaragua? The validity of Galbraith's statement is truly frightening. In six months, or maybe even less, NAFTA will just be another acronym in U.S. foreign policy history. But the truth is that if NAFTA does not get approved when voted in the U.S. Congress this week, not only Mexico, but much of Latin America, will remember the rejection...