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...great disservice to mothers suffering from postpartum depression (PPD) [July 20]. You showed a clear lack of understanding about the seriousness of this illness, which affects 10% to 20% of new mothers. PPD impacts a mother's ability to function; it is not a "difficult period." It has many risk factors, not just a history of depression or anxiety. Although effective treatment is available, fewer than half of cases are recognized. Fewer of those women ever receive treatment. The Mothers Act, which funds research, education and awareness, is the only piece of legislation that would help systematize sorely lacking support...
...fear and fetishize them over more likely but duller threats; that's a common flaw of risk assessment. Ideally, the media should help us place our worries in perspective. But often they encourage the disaster mentality by focusing on the trendy menace--the sleeper cell, the Obama-conspiracy e-mails, the pandemic, the shark--jumping on hot-button distractions and rushing to label every new crisis the worst ever...
...shot and killed in the line of duty in more than a decade. The murder prompted a massive multiagency manhunt involving federal, state and Mexican law enforcement. But while authorities in Mexico have detained five suspects, an FBI spokesman says the case--one that highlights the increasing risk of Mexican drug violence surging north of the border--is still considered unsolved...
Truck drivers' risk of a crash or near miss, distracted vs. undistracted...
...supposed to answer to shareholders, but to a large extent they have been able to determine their own pay packages. Say-on-pay votes and other measures that empower shareholders and outside directors are meant to shift that balance of power. At banks, meanwhile, pay is simply one more risk factor that regulators should keep an eye on. "Once you accept that government is already regulating the business decisions of banks, I don't know why this particular business decision to compensate should be exempted from intervention," Bebchuk says. (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...