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Programs to change gays to straights don’t work, report says
The American Psychological Association concluded Wednesday that there is little evidence that efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation from gay or lesbian to heterosexual are effective. In addition, the 138-page report — covering 87 peer-reviewed studies — said that such efforts may cause harm
Automakers Give Rave Reviews to ‘Cash for Clunkers’
With its awful name and convoluted rules, the cash-for-clunkers program might well have been a flop, yet it turned into a surprising success, even inspiring many of its critics to call for an additional $2 billion in funding.
The Third Wave of Therapy
Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient.
While Canada Spends Big to Save GM, Mexico Gets Free Ride
At time when the U.S.
Around the World, Young Tamil Voices Not Quieted By War’s End
Sri Lanka’s 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19, 2009 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issue photo of slain Tamil Tiger head, Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life’s end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority — about ten percent of the population — and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades
Study Says Alcohol-Related Deaths Are on the Rise
One in 25 deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, and booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago, according to a new study in the British medical journal the Lancet.
Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress, dies
Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and "Charlie’s Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday. She was 62.
Reports say four stabbed at Toronto-area school
Four people reportedly have been stabbed at St. Joseph’s High School in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada
Google’s censorship struggles continue in China
Google was going to help democratize data in China. Instead, about three years after entering the Middle Kingdom, the search company still finds itself in an uncomfortable working relationship with government censors