Arrested Development

dvr this Netflix, Sunday, May 26 True, you can’t really DVR this, since Netflix is like a DVR in the sky. But the long awaited fourth season of Arrested Development arrives on Netflix Sunday with 15 new episodes available all at once. The style of this insanely wacky comedy about the dysfunctional Bluth family begat…

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‘Psychiatric bible’ eliminates ‘gender identity disorder’

(CNN) — After years of controversy, the latest version of the “psychiatric bible” — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — has been released. The DSM-5 (fifth edition)’s introduction, over the weekend at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, marks “the end of more than a decade’s journey in revising the criteria for…

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Peace Corps announces new service opportunity for same-sex couples

WASHINGTON, D.C., – Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet today announced that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.  Same-sex couples may begin the application process starting Monday, June 3. “Service in the Peace Corps is a life-defining leadership experience for Americans who want to…

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Obama to new grads: ‘No time for excuses’

ATLANTA (CNN) — Past, present and future came together on a thunderstorm-filled Sunday, as President Barack Obama received an honorary doctorate and gave the commencement speech at historically black Morehouse College, where the Rev. Martin Luther King and many other prominent African-Americans spent their formative years. After opening with several one-liners, and more smiles than…

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