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...fiction that was taken seriously during their lives. Philip K. Dick's work, no less serious or searching, was confined to the ghetto of SF (that's the short form, folks--never, ever sci-fi). He stalked through earthly life, through five wives, a drug addiction and a nervous breakdown, seeing his SF novels published in tatty Ace paperbacks, his other fiction regularly rejected. When he died, in 1982, at 53, mainstream readers didn't know Phil Dick...
...Breakdown: If he only had a heart ... well, he'd still have trouble with lead poisoning
...Breakdown: If you paid money for this, chances are it's smarter than...
...BACKSIDES For a company's board of directors not to know or care that its CEO uses company money to buy expensive art and personal digs on Fifth Avenue--as is allegedly the case with Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, where the board is stacked with insiders--is an egregious breakdown. "It amazes me that you can take 10 or 12 intelligent people and put them in a boardroom, and their IQ drops by half," says shareholder activist Nell Minow...
Discovering this basic neural circuitry turned out to be a key breakthrough in understanding anxiety. It showed that the anxiety response isn't necessarily caused by an external threat; rather, it may be traced to a breakdown in the mechanism that signals the brain to stop responding. Just as a car can go out of control due to either a stuck accelerator or failed brakes, it's not always clear which part of the brain is at fault. It may turn out that some anxiety disorders are caused by an overactive amygdala (the accelerator) while others are caused...