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Suicide: Being Seen Through All Life's Phases, Even Death, is Epidemic Among Teens

Sandy Sand
OpEdNews
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:02 UTC
teens and camera
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It's been 10 years since the hit movie, The Truman Show, ripped its way through box offices throughout the country, causing people to wonder if anything like that were possible.

The script writers of this movie, like so many keen observers of societal trends, have predicted future events with amazing accuracy; the premise of The Truman Show is alive and thriving throughout the United States.

It's alive and well on so-called reality TV and on the internet.

The Truman Show story is that of an enterprising, maniacal television producer, who adopted Truman after his mother died in childbirth, and televised every moment of his life 24/7 beginning with his birth.

I always wondered if that meant there was a potty-cam in addition to the hundreds of cameras that follow Truman's every move. Of all of our activities, I would put that at the top of the 'privacy' list.

Comment: And what if the parents took the time and put the effort to really look at their children and actually See them and accept them as who they are? Wouldn't that make all the need for outside validation diminish? What if the parents worked on accomplishing this for themselves first? Just a thought...

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Wolf

Monsanto's Bt dreams to be nurtured at PAU

Amrita Chaudhry
expressindia
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:16 UTC
Ludhiana- While the jury is still out and debating on the safety of introducing bio-transgenic crops in the food chain, Punjab Agricultural University is all set to enter into a business relationship with Monsanto, a biotech company. The institute has so far unabashedly promoted Monsanto's Bt crops, including Bt cotton.

Monsanto is all set to fund research programmes at PAU, where topping the list are bio-transgenic crops, followed by plants efficient in nitrogen uptake and crop varieties that can break the current yield barriers.

Interestingly, while PAU, being a research and educational institute, is still working out its gains, Monsanto, on other hand, is very clear about the collaboration. "The first right on the technology and product developed through PAU and Monsanto collaboration stays with Monsanto, while PAU will get its share of royalties," says Dr Amarjit Singh Basra, a senior scientist with the multi-national company, who is currently on a visit to PAU.
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Mr. Potato

Puff-a-Day Marijuana Dose Helped Older Rats Remember

Rob Waters
Bloomberg.com
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:25 UTC
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A daily puff of a compound like marijuana, the plant blamed for ruining potheads' recall, might help maintain memory in old age, researchers who tried it on rats reported today at a neuroscience meeting.
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Spotting a sociopath

Mark Easton
BBC
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:08 UTC
How could anyone do those unimaginably cruel, inhuman things?

That is the question that, to most people, immediately flows from hearing the ghastly details of both the Sheffield man who fathered nine children by raping his two daughters and, of course, the tragic story of Baby P.

We seem to have any number of inquiries and investigations now under way into trying to find what went wrong, but I wonder whether the real answer lies buried in that initial question.

The 56-year-old Sheffield businessman who raped his children and the woman and two men who tortured a baby in Haringey would all appear to fit the definition of sociopaths: individuals with a deficit or absence of the social emotions (love, shame, guilt, empathy and remorse), but with a clear facility to deceive and manipulate others.

Comment: Note that the term sociopath, as included in the lasted versions of the DSM, is broad and obscures the picture in regards to psychopathy, the original term coined to describe the conscienceless, remorseless, inhumane, power hungry beings, who live among us behind a mask of sanity.

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FEMA Trailer Children Sickened

Joaquin Sapien
ProPublica
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11 UTC
A review of medical records released this week by the Children's Health Fund, a New York City non-profit, has renewed concerns about the health of children who lived in the formaldehyde-contaminated trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided to Hurricane Katrina victims. The report suggests that children who lived in these trailers may have had more colds, allergies and skin irritations, as well as developmental and behavioral problems.
FEMA Trailers
© Bill Starling/ProPublicaA FEMA trailer sits on the Lee family's lot in in Coden, Ala.
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Mothers' Mental Games Increase Depressive Symptoms In Daughters


Science Daily
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
A new study in the journal Family Relations examined the effects of a mother's psychological control on the risk for depression of African American adolescents.

Researchers found that girls whose mothers played mental games with them like making them feel guilty or withdrawing expressions of love reported much higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of personal agency.
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Flashback Hope In a Time of Hopelessness


George Washington's blog
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:58 UTC
Several long-time activists have told me recently they are overwhelmed, worried, and think that we may be losing the struggle to end the imperial wars, save our Constitution, and stop false flag terrorism.

One very smart friend asked me if there is any basis for hope.

But hope is an act of will, not a passive mood. Admittedly, things are easier when circumstances bring hope to us, and we can just receive the hopeful and inspiring news.

But if we care about winning, we have to be able to decide to have hope even when outer circumstances aren't so positive.

I have children who are counting on me to leave them with a reasonably safe and sane planet. As I've said elsewhere, "I care too much about my kids and my freedom to be afraid. I care enough about them that it gets my heart beating, connects me to something bigger than myself, and that gives me courage, even when the chips are down."

If I allowed myself to lose hope about exposing false flag terror, about protecting our freedom, about preventing World War III, I would be dropping the ball for my kids. I would be condemning them to a potentially very grey world where bigger and more violent false flags are carried out, where their liberties and joys are wholly stripped away, where every ounce of vitality is beholden to "the war effort".
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Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?

Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:42 UTC
Drill Rig
© Credit: Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublicaA drill rig near the town of Pinedale, Wyo.
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'Barcode Chip' For Cheap, Fast Blood Tests Developed


Science Daily
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:58 UTC
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© J. Heath, R. Fan, and H. AmadThis figure represents an artist's drawing (more or less to scale) of the channel through which the whole blood is flowed, and three of the plasma-skimming channels. The cells shown are mostly red blood cells, with a few white blood cells and platelets. Barcodes are shown in each of the three plasma-skimming channels, and the expanded view of a barcode illustrates some of the salient aspects of the assay. The different colors of the stripes correspond to different stripes of ssDNA.
A new "barcode chip" developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) promises to revolutionize diagnostic medical testing. In less than 10 minutes, and using just a pinprick's worth of blood, the chip can measure the concentrations of dozens of proteins, including those that herald the presence of diseases like cancer and heart disease.

The device, known as the Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip, or IBBC, was developed by a group of Caltech researchers led by James R. Heath, the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor and professor of chemistry, along with postdoctoral scholar Rong Fan and graduate student Ophir Vermesh, and by Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington.
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Publication Bias Found Among Trials Submitted To FDA


Science Daily
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20 UTC
A quarter of drug trials submitted in support of new drug applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remain unpublished five years after the fact, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
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