By Christopher Wink | Feb. 4, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer Thomas Schuler is a man. Since October, he also has been without a job, a combination of characteristics that some say comes with distinct disadvantages. That’s because unemployment affects men differently than women – research shows joblessness often is emotionally harder for men to bear. [...]

By Christopher Wink | Mar 5, 2008 | Death and Dying We are so often caught up in final words. I suppose we write stories because we most enjoy understanding something’s beginning and its end. It follows then, if only in a casual way, that suicide, its finality, the control and closure it is said [...]

By Christopher Wink | Mar 5, 2008 | Death and Dying We are so often caught up in final words. I suppose we write stories because we most enjoy understanding something’s beginning and its end. It follows then, if only in a casual way, that suicide, its finality, the control and closure it is said [...]

By Christopher Wink | Nov 13, 2006 | The ISRST Review [PDF] The American population gurgled over 300 million some time in October of 2006, and it never paused. A solid 67 percent of that population considers itself non-Hispanic white in racial makeup, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning nearly 100 million Americans are responsible for [...]