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...relatives showed no intention of ever turning over the boy to his father, even though immigration law clearly gives custody to the surviving parent. While negotiations stalled, a team of expert psychologists and pediatricians charged by the government to monitor Elian's health concluded that the boy would suffer tremendous emotional strain if he was not returned to his father. Even more troubling was a video released by the relatives that showed Elian saying he did not want to return to Cuba--a transparent political gambit that seemed more like a hostage video than a genuine plea...
...still felt small. "I would sit in class at college with a coat on," he says. You may have heard this condition called bigorexia--thinking your muscles are puny when they aren't. Pope and his colleagues call it muscle dysmorphia and estimate that hundreds of thousands of men suffer from...
Diversifying ensures that you won't suffer too much if one sector of the market tanks and that you won't get left behind if one sector takes off. It's a confidence builder that, like turning off the tube, makes you less likely to sell when stocks dip--O.K., plunge--giving others the benefit of temporary low prices. Consider: many days this year, the Dow has been up when the NASDAQ was down, and vice versa. In the past 30 days, a tech-only portfolio might easily have lost 30% to 50% of its value. Yet if that portfolio...
...import out-of-date medicines," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "If South Africa approaches this question in good faith they'll find out what everybody else has figured out, which is that HIV causes AIDS - but in the meantime hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will suffer because of some misplaced distrust of medical authority...
...environmental stakeholders looms large on the horizon of national consciousness. The roots of the new environmentalism can be found in the recognition, at the national level, of sub-populations that are particularly vulnerable or susceptible to the impacts of environmental deterioration. Vulnerable groups, including the poorest of the poor, suffer from various combinations of natural geographical factors, insensitive zoning laws and/or uncouth sociopolitical maneuvers that increase their exposure to detrimental environmental factors...