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...Santy, author of the definitive book on this issue, Choosing the Right Stuff: Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts, said astronauts are high-achieving individuals who tend to believe they can cope with any problem and see psychological issues as signs of weakness...
...story of Zafar's extraordinary final days is the subject of William Dalrymple's new book, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. Fans of Dalrymple know him as an author of crisply written works of non-fiction drawn from his travels and historical research, books so full of drama and memorable characters they read like novels. His latest work won't disappoint them...
...author directs similar scrutiny at the failings of ngos ("a business that never turns a profit"), the rise of caste-based parties "and their belligerent, cocky, supremely confident demagogues," and the hypocritical worship of the common man. "We want Oxbridge Indians in our Parliament," a cynical journalist opines. "Who invited the common man - safely eulogized in speeches but otherwise locked away in ugly towns and uglier villages - to speak...
...little less when you get to a baby, even less when you get to a man in a vegetative state, all the way down to a dead person when there’s no one there at all,” said Professor of Psychology and the senior author of the study Daniel M. Wegner. But the findings, published in the Feb. 2 issue of the academic journal Science, modify the view that minds are judged on a continuum from greater to lesser, revealing instead that they are evaluated based on assumptions about the individual’s ability...
...author, ''but an exemplary state.'' Israel was born with monumental ambitions and evoked heroic expectations. Israelis are extraordinarily sensitive about their image, in part because of the 2,000 years in which Jews had to worry, for their survival, about the opinions of the Gentiles around them. ''Israelis feel they are a people walking a high ledge,'' says Oz. It is not only fair but necessary to ask if Israel has lost its way. Surrounded by nations that have tried to destroy it in five wars in 40 years, and now engaged in fighting a Palestinian uprising, Israel cannot afford...