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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Here is a list of her contributions:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/rachel_aviv/search?contributorName=rachel%20aviv
I didn't see the abortion story.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 09, 2014, 11:43:32 am ---Here is a list of her contributions:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/rachel_aviv/search?contributorName=rachel%20aviv
I didn't see the abortion story.
--- End quote ---
Thanks.
Did strike me as interesting that they ran two stories that feature doctors behaving badly in a fairly short time.
I remember the story about Linda Bishop. That was very sad.
serious crayons:
I remember this one:
Annals of Crime
The Science of Sex Abuse
ANNALS OF CRIME about sex offenders who download child pornography, but may never have molested children. Is it right to imprison them for heinous crimes they have not yet committed? Focusses on one man, John, who, as a thirty-one-year-old soldier stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, used the…
by Rachel Aviv
When I read it, I'd recently been in a conversation with a lawyer friend who said something similar -- that people who possess child porn were being unfairly targeted or something like that. I was skeptical at the time, but after reading this article I could see the point. When a crime is so stigmatized that nobody wants to defend it, the people who commit it can become scapegoats.
Jeff Wrangler:
At lunch today I started Margaret Talbot's April 28 article about "digital cloning of humans." I smiled when I came to her use of the phrase, "pixellated humans." She's using it to mean something like "humans rendered in pixels," and I knew that, but I was also familiar with the older meaning of pixelated (or pixellated, Talbot's spelling; Webster gives both) as "somewhat unbalanced mentally." ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, on to the next Duty Article, Dexter Filkins on Iraq (April 28).
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