Study Examines the Pathologization of Guantanamo Suicides

... possibility of their infinite detention. Although humanitarian agencies aim to present the psychological states of the detainees as indicators of the abominable conditions of their detention, by presenting the attempted suicides as the result of impaired psychological functioning, they inadvertently play into ...

Study Examines the Pathologization of Guantanamo Suicides

... possibility of their infinite detention. Although humanitarian agencies aim to present the psychological states of the detainees as indicators of the abominable conditions of their detention, by presenting the attempted suicides as the result of impaired psychological functioning, they inadvertently play into ...

The Big Issue About Abdominal Fat Tissue

... Fat tissue around the abdomen is an abominable sight indeed. Further, it is a crucial indicator of worse things to come. // Rothwell and colleague Chris Pemberton, actively involved in Christ...

Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

... hypocrites? Is the proverbial Indian tolerance melting into a myth? Although a ban may help to curb the bane of alcoholism, it must be treated as an abominable social evil and dealt with accordingly. Let us leave behind the days when dietary choices decided the destiny of the nation and look forward to ...

abominable in Biological News

University of Florida study provides insight into evolution of first flowers

... GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve. But a new University of Florida study, set to appear next week in the online edition of the Proce...

Tree of life for flowering plants reveals relationships among major groups

...he details of the flowering plants rapid diversification have remained a mystery since Charles Darwin first suggested their evolutionary history is an abominable mystery. One of the reasons why it has been hard to understand evolutionary relationships among the major groups of flowering plants is because th...

UF botanists: Flowering plants evolved very quickly into 5 groups

...exas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the abominable mystery of early plant evolution. In two papers set to be published next... The details, and especially the cause of, this diversification Darwins abominable mystery has been a hot topic in botany ever since. One of the reasons ...

Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

...eractive swim programs in Japan and China, in direct violation of the Code of Ethics maintained by WAZA. "The Japanese dolphin drive hunts are an abominable violation of any standard of animal welfare, and these hunts inflict measurable pain and suffering on animals that are intelligent, sentient, and soci...