“Madness” no more: How definitions of mental illness have changed over the years
[masterslider id=”6″] By Vera H-C Chan and Claudine Zap In 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders weighed in at a wispy 50 pages. In 1994, DSM-IV numbered 943 pages. The DSM-5 will actually be less than that — still, when comparing the versions, “one thing you’re struck…
Top Searches: #1 Elections
Year in Review 2012: Top 10 Searches The United States is sometimes criticized for its citizens’ apparent lack of interest in politics, at least beyond the celebrity angle. But “elections” was this year’s most-searched term on Yahoo!, even though the long campaign probably made a lot of people weary…
Top 10 Lists-O-Rama
Getty Images/Getty Images – WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 15: In this handout image provided by The White House, U.S. President Barack Obama jokingly mimics U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney’s “not impressed” expression while greeting members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics teams in the Oval Office November 15, 2012…
ANALYSIS: “Zero Dark Thirty” opens wide … to controversy
In this undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jessica Chastain, center, plays … Kathryn Bigelow may have been denied a chance to repeat Academy Award history, but her film “Zero Dark Thirty”—which expanded to wide release on Friday—has made the best picture list for the Oscars, Golden Globes…
Top News Stories: #9 Connecticut school shootings
On Dec. 14, a spree shooting left 28 dead in the Connecticut town of Newtown. America had already been roiled by eight rampages in 2012—among them the shootings at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., (7 dead); the movie theater in Aurora, Colo., (12 dead); and the Sikh temple in Oak…
Analysis: When families of murder victims speak out
People walk past a makeshift memorial in Sandy Hook, after the December 14 shooting tragedy when a gunman shot … This is a group nobody wants to be part of. Few can understand the anguish that families and close friends of murder victims bear. They find ways to cope to make…
Presidential inaugurations, the second time around
FILE – This Jan. 20, 2009 file photo shows the crowd on the National Mall looking from the Capitol toward the Washington … Mass-media firsts, Marine bands, frozen canaries, poisoned pigeons. Now that’s a party? The presidential inauguration is a chance for the nation to celebrate a milestone—its continued peaceful transition…
ANALYSIS: Disciplining children over fake guns may be wrong lesson
A 5-year-old faced with a pile of Legos did what boys have done since the dawn of time: He fashioned a weapon, ran about and made shooting sounds. That’s when the Massachusetts elementary school sent a letter to his parents and warned that the next time, their son Joe would…
Hard lessons from record-low law school applications
To paraphrase the Bard: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the law school applicants. As maligned as lawyers may be, their profession comes with prestige and visions of hefty billable hours. So the plummet in law school applications—to the lowest number in 30 years—is both shocking yet unsurprising….
Analysis: Women leaving extreme faiths
Megan Phelps-Roper, the granddaughter of fundamentalist preacher Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in … When Megan Phelps-Roper—heir apparent to the notorious Westboro Baptist Church founded by her grandfather Fred Phelps—left with her younger sister Grace in November, they joined that rare population of women who leave extreme faiths. Indeed,…