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On #childrightsday
On #childrightsday, join us and @PriyankaChopra to #FightUnfair: https://t.co/Klnw9rXvPF pic.twitter.com/Vv1eMyRT47 — UNICEF (@UNICEF) November 20, 2015
Relationship of sexual abuse to the development of schizophrenia
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1511/S00086/schizophrenia-linked-to-environmental-causes.htm Schizophrenia linked to environmental causes A New Zealand court case about the relationship of sexual abuse to the development of schizophrenia has potential for alternative understandings around causes of mental illness to be considered in legal contexts. That’s the conclusion from a study by researchers at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the…

Average woman has higher life satisfaction than average man.
A global survey shows women are more satisfied with their lives than men are https://t.co/OWDcPIwSBE — Quartz (@qz) January 9, 2017 The economist Mallory Montgomery of University of Southern California found these survey results odd. Montgomery does happiness economics research, a burgeoning area of study that looks beyond wealth as the ultimate measure of whether…
First Step to 95% Failure
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503378&objectid=11487673 So-called Hindu ‘witch doctors’ have some in the Auckland Indian community living in fear of black magic curses, with claims the issue is wide-spread and has been going on for decades. Complaints have been rolling into NZME today after claims ‘healers’ in South Auckland have charged thousands of dollars in return for promised financial…