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...people who will be fired? David Noer, author of a book on the psychological effects of layoffs, traces stages of reaction strikingly similar to those discovered by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in people awaiting their death: denial, anger, bargaining ("Can I get a better package?"), depression and finally acceptance. Better get used to those stages, he says: in today's business climate, "we are all temps...
...helps regulate dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain that mediates pleasure and emotion. Researchers have yet to figure out exactly how the longer gene affects behavior. What they do know, says Dr. Jonathan Benjamin, an Israeli visiting scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and co-author of the study, is that "when a molecule of dopamine arrives knocking on the door to a cell, the cell reacts a little bit more strongly in the people with the long version...
...other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. "All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
...often choose men who aren't necessarily healthy for us," says McMillan. "The bottom line is that people will do stupid things when they want to feel loved." The lesson is lost on some viewers. "The movie didn't do black women any justice at all," says Gail Christopher, author of Anchors for the Innocent, a guidebook for single parents. "As black women we fight the stereotype of being oversexed all the time. Because so much of it is filmed in the bedroom, this movie will reinforce that...
...conjunction with the release, historians, Douglas Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Bostore, Margaret H. Floyd, author of a book on Harvard architectural history; and Leland M. Roth, professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon, are drafting a letter to Rudenstine asking him to halt the construction on the Union until there can be further discussion over the plans, Shand-Tucci said...