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...number of things it's not. For one, it's not simple introversion. If you stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy--not unless the prospect of the party makes you so anxious that what you're really doing is avoiding it. "Shyness is a greater than normal tension or uncertainty when we're with strangers," says psychologist Jerome Kagan of Harvard University. "Shy people are more likely to be introverts, but introverts...
...Schiavo is not about cutting-edge law. It is not about rare conditions. It is about emotions and hot-button issues. It should leave us anxious to involve professionals to mediate discussions among families on end-of-life care and to complete our own advance directives. If we do, then perhaps the Schiavo family’s agony will have served some purpose...
...Every team has weaknesses. It’s just a matter of on a given day finding out which ones they are,” Stone said. “We know what they’re capable of doing offensively. I’m anxious to see how well they play defense...
...They know that I take my education seriously and that I’ve made a conscious decision to stay in school,” says Robinson of anxious modeling scouts. But just because he isn’t running on the cover of GQ every month doesn’t mean he didn’t see the perks of being one of FM’s top picks...
...worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...