Click here to read “Mormon Women and Mitt Romney’s Pregnancy Problem” by Geoffrey Dunn from Metro Active via Reader Supported News on October 18, 2012.
Category: Editorials
Greed: The Ultimate Addiction
“At the Corner of Hope and Worry,” by Dan Barry
“At the Corner of Hope and Worry,” by Dan Barry
Infrequently, someone’s front-page piece is so elegiacal, that it catches momentarily in the back of one’s throat. Here are some snippets from Dan Barry’s vignette of Oct 14 in the NY Times. “Another day begins with a sound softer than a finger snap…” “(Her glasses) …smudged with grill grease..(s)he sees the world trough the blur of her work.” “(She sees) food as life’s binding agent.” “…the past improves with distance the present keeps piling on, and a promising future is practically willed…” “Where the American dream they talk about can sometimes seem like a tease.”
If these are appetizing, look at the full piece here. This kind of journalism breathes life into our souls.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: At the Corner of Hope and Worry by Dan Barry in The New York Times on October 14, 2o12.
China’s Nobels
Click Here to Read: China’s Nobels By Larry Seims and Jeffrey Yang in The New York Times on October 17, 2012.
From Poem by Liu Xiaobo:
In memory and bravery
this day lives forever
It is an immortal stone
and though stone, can cry out
It is the grave’s wild grass growing eternal green
and though wild grass, it can take flight
The blade-tip that pierces the heart’s center drips
with the blood of snowbright memory
“Standards” v Diversity
Click here to read: “Standards” v Diversity: Testing Standards Reduce Diversity In Elite Schools by Edward C. Sullivan from New York Civic on October 14, 2012.
The Specialized High School Achievement Test which the New York City Department of Education uses to select students to eight specialized high schools has come under fire from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. They have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education that the test is not predictive of success in these high schools and that its use has led to a diminution of the enrollment of minorities in the schools, which means fewer will enter the work force and the middle class.
Helping Children Succeed: Principles of positive character development in children
Reasons Matter (When Intuitions Don’t Object)
Click Here to Read: Reasons Matter (When Intuitions Don’t Object) By Jonathan Haidt on the New York Times Opinionator website on October 7, 2012.
Is psychiatry committing ‘professional suicide’?
Click here to read “Is psychiatry committing ‘professional suicide’?” by Maia Szalavitz from TIME via CNN.com on October 9, 2012.
British psychiatrist and Big Pharma gadfly David Healy is so controversial amongst his colleagues that some have tried to have his medical license revoked — but there he was, speaking at the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) second largest annual meeting at a well-attended session on conflicts of interest.
