Connecting the advice doctors give to the scientific evidence is the point of a new commentary on obesity appearing this week in the electronic edition of the respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity.

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It is thus a perfect moment to consider how the DSM came about in the first place and why this new edition will do nothing to clear up the public's growing confusion.

WSJ: DSM-5: A Manual Run Amok

NPR's Larry Abramson has been reporting on the rebirth of schools in New Orleans for a series this week on MORNING EDITION.

NPR: Parents Pleased with New Orleans Charter School

Michael Hofmann, the translator of this new English edition, warns us in a fine introduction that the novel is in many ways untypical of Roth's other books, many of them looser, more open-grained satirical urban novellas.

ECONOMIST: Modern fiction

This cartoon appeared in last week's edition of the New York Times book review.

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This new version, published on DVD in 2007, is a multilingual special edition with 37 language tracks.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

This year's 47th edition pits the San Francisco 49ers against the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans, Louisiana, and claims as its most interesting storyline two close-knit brothers coaching against each other for the title.

BBC: Super Bowl XLVII: Bringing big bucks to the Big Easy

The first of those is the so-called "Unity" desktop, which will be the new desktop environment for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition (slated to debut in October of this year).

ENGADGET: Canonical shows off 'Unity' desktop, Ubuntu Light for OEMs

In last week's edition of the New Republic, Editor-in-Chief Martin Peretz wrote of his despair over this now-well-established pattern of behavior.

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