Word: behaviorism
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...Jackson's emaciated figure, wan complexion and erratic behavior during the announcement - he repeatedly told the audience members he loved them, before pumping his fists, striking a catwalk pose and disappearing behind a curtain - led to speculation that his health would prevent him from completing the marathon residency. More recently, British tabloids suggested the singer had skin cancer. (Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...
Speaking of working on a marriage, you write that there are only two stages in a relationship: ignorance and rehab. That sounds pretty cynical. What do you mean? At the beginning everyone is on their best behavior, so you're really ignorant of the ways [the relationship is] not going to work. You take care of the problems that can be solved easily at the beginning. [Later on in the marriage] you have to keep making sure that you're paying attention to your most important needs and make sure you're getting them met. (Read about the science...
...shrouded in mystery. Pyongyang exists frozen outside the global economy and raises funds through a host of backdoor activities, including the manufacture of counterfeit money and dissemination of its military secrets and technological capabilities to a whole network of dubious customers. As a consequence of Pyongyang's recent bellicose behavior, a new U.N. resolution passed this June forbids the country from exporting arms and authorizes member states to search North Korean vessels suspected to be carrying them, though they must first seek Pyongyang's legal consent - effectively, a non-starter. Nevertheless, the U.S.S. John McCain, an Aegis class destroyer...
...didn't take long for Sanford to experience the range of other unpleasant consequences of his behavior. Even as pundits were writing the political obituary of a fiscal conservative many had touted as a GOP presidential hopeful for 2012, The State newspaper of Columbia published personal e-mails the governor had sent to his paramour, named Maria. (Thursday's edition of Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion identified her as Maria Belen Chapur, a 43-year-old divorced mother of two who lives in the fashionable district of Palermo and works for an agricultural company.) In one, Sanford gushes about Maria...
...mails to Sanford, however, she insists, "You are my love." She adds, "Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen." On a private level, Sanford, like any human being, can be excused for succumbing to that inconvenient rule of the heart. But in the public arena, the erratic behavior of the past week seems to confirm what detractors have argued for years - that his constituents also suffer from his self-indulgence...