Saturday/Sunday, June 18-19, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, June 18-19, 2011)
(1)- MENTAL HEALTH EPIDEMIC; WHY? -- It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it. What is going on here?

(2)- JERSEY LAWYER -- In New Jersey, nothing beats Essex County, many square miles of urban melodrama from the now sudden-death ghetto streets of the old Weequahic Newark neighborhood to the the Short Hills Mall. Here’s the lawyer.

(3)- INFO ABSENT -- The Professors, The Press, The Think Tanks—And Their Problems. Slow collapse of newspapers opens public discourse to added infusions of ideologically motivated misinformation. Walter Lippmann wouldn’t be pleased.

(4)- THE HUMBLE LIST -- Since the 1960s, before powerful computers arrived to help with the task of storing and organizing large databases of information, historians have sought to combine their qualitative approach with a quantitative one.

(5)- BIGNESS -- Patrick French’s India: A Portrait, which the author calls an “intimate biography of 1.2 billion people,” has received a number of hostile notices in the Indian press; many worried over how India is being interpreted.

(6)- SMURFS ACCUSED -- Antoine Buéno, a lecturer at Sciences Po university in Paris, points out that the Smurfs live in a world where private initiative is rarely rewarded, where there is one leader and Smurfs rarely leave their small country.

(7)- PAWPAW AND LADY LOVE -- Has the Supreme Court ever heard such a peculiarly American story as that of Anna Nicole Smith? And they didn’t know the half of it. The question seemed to boil down to a somewhat esoteric point of law.

(8)- EATING MEAT IS SUICIDE -- Cleverly interspersed between scenes of ornate and beautiful vegetarian food being prepared in aspirational restaurants, scientists explain why they think eating animals, and their products, is a bad idea.

(9)- ELDERLY CONFESSION – A Dutch murder mystery has been solved — 65 years later — with the confession of a 96-year-old woman, who said 1946 shooting death of the victim happened in the mistaken belief the victim was a Nazi collaborator.

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