Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Tuesday morning roundup

Early, structured intervention mitigates trauma in children. Also, overprotection is damaging to kids.

The Administration's fear of being tarred as an overregulator is cramping the FDA's style at the expense of public health. If you want to read more about the regulation debate, this time with regard to food safety, and have a very high tolerance for puns, see Dana Milbank's column.

A more effective way to prevent abortions.

O.M.F.G.


An excerpt from Judith Thurman's profile on Shiaparelli & Prada:
Schiaparelli was thirty-seven and Prada was thirty-nine when they delivered their first collections. But experience of the real world, which was a man’s world for both of them, made them intolerant of female passivity and desperation. They don’t really care what makes a woman desirable to men. Their work asks you to consider what makes a woman desirable to herself.

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