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Entry on mental illness is added to AP Stylebook - 0 views

  • The Associated Press today added an entry on mental illness to the AP Stylebook.
  • This isn’t only a question of which words one uses to describe a person’s illness. There are important journalistic questions, too. “When is such information relevant to a story? Who is an authoritative source for a person’s illness, diagnosis and treatment? These are very delicate issues and this Stylebook entry is intended to help journalists work through them thoughtfully, accurately and fairly.”
  • Avoid using mental health terms to describe non-health issues. Don’t say that an awards show, for example, was schizophrenic.
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  • The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats.
  • mental illness Do not describe an individual as mentally ill unless it is clearly pertinent to a story and the diagnosis is properly sourced.
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Russia to put dead whistle-blower on trial - Europe - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

  • A whistleblowing Russian lawyer whose death in custody became a symbol of rights abuses and strained relations with the United States will go on posthumous trial in what relatives say is revenge by the Kremlin.
  • The circumstances of his demise led the United States last year to bar entry to Russians accused of involvement in his case or in other rights abuses.
  • "It's inhuman to try a dead man. If I take part in this circus, I become an accomplice to this,"
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  • "It is pure state propaganda because there is no point in trying a dead man."
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Too-Skinny Model Ban Takes Effect in Israel | How To - Yahoo! Shine - 0 views

  • The law, approved last March by Israel's legislating Knesset, requires models to prove they have maintained a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18.5 for three months prior to a fashion shoot or show.
  • "This law is another step in the war against eating disorders,"
  • But critics of the law in this country say it and others like it—the Madrid Fashion Show's ban on women whose BMI is below 18, for example, and Milan's Fashion Week's ban on models with a BMI below 18.5—are misguided, focusing on weight instead of health.
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  • create guidelines for models which, rather than focusing on BMI, strive to educate the industry and foster a healthy working environment.
  • "I realized that only legislation can change the situation. There was no time to educate so many people, and the change had be forced on the industry. There was no time to waste, so many girls were dieting to death."
  • "Certainly I don't believe the modeling industry has caused the rise in eating disorders, but it makes it harder," she says. "It's a difficult recovery environment, worshiping thinness as the beauty ideal."
Dunia Tonob

Theories: Close Enough - 2 views

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    This is not an article, but I thought it was a good summary of our discussions on truth and experimental science.
Dunia Tonob

Latin American fiction: A tragic hero's tale | The Economist - 0 views

  • IN 1884 Roger Casement, an ascetic young Ulsterman, joined an expedition up the Congo river led by Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-born American explorer, believing that commerce, Christianity and colonialism would emancipate the dark continent.
  • When reports reached London that the rubber boom had prompted a similar reign of terror against the indigenous population in Putumayo, in the Peruvian Amazon, the British foreign secretary sent Casement to investigate, with the words: “You're a specialist in atrocities. You can't say no.
  • Only a few years after his lauded success in Peru he was hanged in Pentonville prison as a traitor. Having transferred his thirst for justice to the fight for Irish independence, he sought German military support for the cause during the first world war
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  • “The Dream of the Celt” is a moral tale. It is about the choice between denial or denunciation in the face of evil, and the fine line between activism and fanaticism
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Circumcision in Germany: Incisive arguments | The Economist - 0 views

  • The court decided that, although the doctor was innocent, circumcising an infant for non-medical reasons violates Germany's constitutional protection of every person's bodily integrity—and should thus be a crime.
  • As it happens, the movement against circumcision is spreading, from California, where “intactivists” have tried to ban it, to Israel, where some parents now opt for brit shalom (the “covenant of peace”) as a ritual alternative
  • Dieter Graumann, president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, asserted that the verdict, if it is upheld, would make Jewish life in Germany, just as it is blooming again, practically impossible
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  • ne one hand, Germany's constitution, written after the second world war to prevent any repeat of Nazi horrors, assures the rights of parents and of religious freedom. But on the other hand, it guarantees the physical inviolability of every person
  • The court felt that the boy's right to inviolability trumped the religious and parental rights of his mother and father.
  • it is wrong to make an exception for involuntary male circumcision when female circumcision is seen as barbaric. And he maintains that arguments which lean on tradition alone are inadequate, for the same reason that tradition cannot, nowadays, justify polygamy or footbinding.
Dunia Tonob

TED Blog | 21 untranslatable words worth spreading - 2 views

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    How does the language we speak affect the way we describe the world?
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WHO | Science, media and public perception: implications for climate and health policies - 0 views

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    The perception of science in the media.
Dunia Tonob

Our lives are not our own. - 1 views

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    The chemicals in our brain that produce emotions.
Dunia Tonob

The World Today - Speculation rife over missing Chinese leader 11/09/2012 - 0 views

  • Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes) Alternate WMA version | MP3 download ELEANOR HALL: China's anointed successor to Hu Jintao as leader of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, has been missing from public view in recent days.Officials are yet to provide
  • an explanation for his absences, and now speculation is building about why and what it could mean for the transition to a new generation of leaders in China later this year.
  • This is a bit unusual, but it is not totally surprising in view of the age of the Chinese leaders. I do believe that the Chinese authorities are extremely sensitive and worried about various potential adverse events or developments that may affect the image of the leadership succession process and the coming party congress.
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      Such a culture shock! If something like this occurred in America, I do not believe that the government would get away with keeping it hidden.
  • convention that one should ask about top leaders' health and should not talk about it.
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