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Rejecting 31,000 gun deaths as a fact of life
There are so many violent tragedies every day — I'm thinking specifically about the deaths of young people, and particularly those by gun — it's impossible to process it all, much less give our hearts to it. If we tried, our heads would burst....
Tags: Murder, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School
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The weighty issue of the day
So it turns out Chris Christie is fat. If, somehow, that fact had escaped you before, surely it came slamming home last week after he appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman." There was the 50-year-old governor of New Jersey jokingly snacking on...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Overweight, Executive Branch, Weight, Politics
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If someone in your family suffers from mental illness, read on . . .
People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses need help -- but members of their family need coping skills as well. Starting Feb. 21, a series of classes will kick off in Hampton designed to...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Mental Illness, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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The weighty issue
So it turns out Chris Christie is fat. If, somehow, that fact had escaped you before, surely it came slamming home last week after he appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman." There was the 50-year-old governor of New Jersey jokingly...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Physical Fitness and Exercise, The New York Times, Weight, Executive Branch
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Tuberculosis, H.L. Mencken
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In Theory: Do the media glamorize suicide?
French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote, "No fact is more readily transmissible by contagion than suicide." According to writer Giles Fraser, the media play a part in this transmission. In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Fraser argues...
Tags: Depression, Behavioral Conditions, Religion and Belief, Murder, Personal Weapon Control
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Letters: Jail isn't for the mentally ill
Re "Prison's revolving door," Editorial, Feb. 5 Crime and arrests in Los Angeles County continue to decline. On the countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee's website, the first annual report on public safety realignment shows recidivism rates...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Prisons
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Slain SB police officer's brother applauds gun control plan
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Some of the president's new gun control proposals unveiled Wednesday may have prevented the shooting death of a South Bend Police officer about 6 years ago. Corporal Nick Polizzotto was gunned down by a man that was mentally unstable....Tags: U.S. Congress, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Politics
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The system's missing pieces
In testimony before President Barack Obama's Gun Violence Task Force on Jan. 9, Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University professor and former president of the American Psychiatric Association, said that the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, coming so soon after...Tags: Depression, Social Sciences, Symptoms, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cocaine called 'major factor' in death of woman arrested by LAPD
L.A. NOWCocaine intoxication was a “major factor” in the death of Alesia Thomas, a woman who died shortly after she was forcibly taken into custody by several LAPD officers, according to the findings of an autopsy by the Los Angeles County...... -
Suspect in Oakland college shooting deemed unfit to stand trial
L.A. NOWA judge has temporarily suspended the trial of a man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage at an Oakland vocational school, ruling the suspect is mentally unfit. Judge Carrie Panetta of Alameda County Superior Court made her...... -
Kinyua guilty but not criminally responsible in Morgan beating
Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday....
Tags: Prosecution, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Illness, Health and Medical Professionals
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