Thursday, July 09, 2009 - Posts
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If you're a great web developer who loves Slate and Double X, we want to talk to you. We're looking to hire a senior-level web software engineer for Double X ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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How sad that Summer Stiers,
the young woman suffering from an as-yet uncategorized illness who was
profiled so heart-breakingly by Robin Marantz Henig in the New York Times Magazine,
has died. At least she ended up at the National Institutes of Health
where the doctors tried—unsuccessfully—to puzzle out the reason for her
many medical maladies.
One of my daughter's favorite shows is Mystery Diagnosis, which presents the story of someone with strange symptoms who goes for years without being able to get a diagnosis ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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If ever you think you have too much to do or you’re fretting about your “work/life” balance, peek into the life of Rebiya Kadeer, the Uighur activist
who did or didn’t set off the latest protests against the Han Chinese.
She started off as a laundress and somehow became the Uighur
community’s most successful business person by importing steel from
Kazakhstan ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Whew Willa, you offer some tricky psychoanalysis here.
None of us can say what the Jacksons were thinking on that stage with
Paris, or what they were trying to project to the YouTube audience.
What we can safely say is that despite being a dysfunctional family,
they are clearly a family in grief. I think it’s unfair to try to
interpret their intentions. Would it have been better, or more
believable, if they had not embraced Paris and just stood off to the
side and whispered to her to suck it up? Is it really that implausible
that with Michael now gone they would want to surround his children in
a protective cocoon? ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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From my many years of writing about evangelicals, I often get e-mails
from conservative Christian sites. One I got yesterday labeled:
“WARNING: Protect Your Children” caught my eye. Bands of child
molesters? Gay teachers? More abortions? No, worse. Sacha Baron Cohen.
The e-mail is a classic in the genre of scold while titillate ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Last night I listened to a member of the U.S. Coast Guard narrate the
experience of intercepting a boat full of Haitians trying to reach
American soil. The worst part, he said, was that the immigrants thought
they’d found “the welcome wagon.” The Coast Guard was enthusiastically
invited onto the boat before they burned it and repatriated its
passengers ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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A guest post from Robin Marantz Henig, a contributor for the New York Times Magazine (and Sam's mom!):
The death two weeks ago of Summer Stiers, a young woman I met last year and wrote about at length for the New York Times Magazine,
made me think about how hard it was for her to get anyone to take her
perplexing illness seriously. Whatever ailed Summer seemed to cause a
wide range of symptoms, which is why nobody could quite figure out what
was wrong with her. She bled from her intestines; her kidneys failed;
she had chronic pain in her legs and back; she developed severe toxemia
while pregnant and lost her baby; her bones were damaged; she had
frequent mental blackouts attributed to seizures; she had lost one eye,
and the retina in the other was damaged; she was profoundly fatigued;
her hair was completely gray, even though she was only 31 ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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