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on One Billion Served?

Most "high quality" items we buy now are made in China. Sunglasses, and optical glasses are almost exclusively made in China, from Prada to Wal-Mart brands.

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on Clinton and the Generational Gender Divide

As women we have become unsensitized to the subtle sexism we face on a daily basis.

Here are some examples:
economist Caitlin Knowles Myers found that men ordering coffee get their java 20 seconds earlier than women, at least in Boston-area coffee shops. This delay didn?t seem to have anything to do with how complicated the drink order was.

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on One Billion Served?

"why wouldn?t the rights owner cover her market by manufacturing and selling the lower quality along with the top quality stuff? Offer the choice. People who want and need quality will pay for it."

It doesn't work like that.

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on One Billion Served?

"If we bombed Iraq because Saddam gassed his own people - why do we do business with the nation that has the worlds worst human rights record?"

I can answer that with one word: $

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on One Billion Served?

Not untrue, but you might want to put that into a context that makes it more meaningful.

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on One Billion Served?

"Production and QC is a complete nightmare and is perfect for a society that does not care if a product is safe or reliable"

While I agree that production and QC is a nightmare, I don't believe that as a society the Chinese do not care if a product is safe or reliable. There is a back lash within China against poorly made food and products.

However, there is no recourse for recipients of products sent abroad that are poor quality or unsafe. That's a HUGE problem for us in America.

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on One Billion Served?

"Is it purely Capitalism trumping Democracy?"

Duh.

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on One Billion Served?

I both manufacture in China, and I also sell products to China. I've never had a problem having them sign a confidentiality agreement. However, China has NO problem breeching that agreement.

If there is a market for a product, any product, they will manufacture and sell it regardless of contracts or laws.

It's a very difficult culture and market to work with. The best lesson on understanding it is the Opium War section of the Hong Kong Museum. Understand the Opium Wars, you'll understand China.

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

David W. Oaks, Executive Director
MindFreedom International, Charlatan and Snakeoil Salesman

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

This is what I mean by dangerous.

Omega 3 has not been proven to mitigate, much less cure, any mental illness!

It's a valuable supplement for overall health, and it is being researched for its effectivity on mental health because there is a suggestion that it has an effect. However, the research is in it's very early stages. Dosage has not been established, or is even suggestive. Do your homework! Here is a summary of the studies from the Department of Health http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/o3mentsum.htm

Anyone advocating this as anything more than a supplement to hedge your bets is unconscionable and a charlatan and banking on a placebo effect.

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

Amen

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

I believe those are ways to "build mental health", but trying to solve true mental illness with homeopathic methods is dangerous and ignorant.

If you find my requirement for scientific methods to prove theory, then I'm not surprised that you perceive me as condescending.

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

This story is hard to believe. Discharged from an unnamed hospital into the ice storm without shoes, but with a major spinal injury? The time line is off too. He was living by the river trying to save his cat colony while at the same time sequestered at a psyche hospital?

However, if this person is not pulling our leg, I don't doubt that he/she is mentally ill. Living by the river with "my river cat family"?

Schizophrenics often don't recognize their own illness...

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on Recognizing Mental Illness

Davidwoaks,

Your personal unfortunate misdiagnoses is unfortunate, but can and does happen for all types of illnesses. Yet, it would be idiocracy to advocate against treatment because physicians can make mistakes.

Would you encourage the disuse of antibiotics, knowing it to save lives? Why then do you think it's appropriate to dismiss the lifesaving abilities of drugs that treat any other illness, including brain chemistry? Such ignorance isn't bliss, it's deadly.



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on Recognizing Mental Illness

Jamison, if your son was diagnosed with diabetes, I doubt you would question the need for insulin. Why do you find drug treatment for schizophrenia any less responsible?

I find such naivety about treating mental health one of the main detriments to our societies backward response to the problem.


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on Recognizing Mental Illness

I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until I was 28 and it changed my life (I'm in my 30's now). Looking back at my childhood and young adult life I can see how an earlier diagnosis would have made a huge difference in my school and social early development success. Yet, even with all my obvious symptoms, no one recognized the issue. Sadly, my school and community did not afford resources to mental illness. Yet, an investment in children's mental health will reimburse the community ten-fold. Bravo for having this program.

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