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Such deliberateness requires a whole different type of disorder, one that may rise to the level of true psychopathy. In the popular mind, psychopathy is an impossibly broad term that more or less means crazy. But psychologists see it differently and have devoted no shortage of energy to defining just what the condition is. The researcher who may have come closest is psychologist Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia, author of numerous books including Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work...
...1980s, when Lt. Col. Oliver North worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide for the continuity of government in the wake of insurrection or an atomic attack. He sought to put together an emergency process whereby the President, through FEMA, would temporarily take over broad unprecedented powers, including censorship, the suspension of habeas corpus and the seizure of production, from farms to manufacturing plants. As part of the operation, FEMA might even assume authority over all Defense Department personnel and National Guard forces, according to Guts and Glory, Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s book about North...
Eric S. Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute—a joint venture between Harvard and MIT for genetic research applied to medicine—will assist Obama on issues such as global warming and research funding as co-chair of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...
Lander will co-chair the advisory group on a part-time basis and continue as director of the Broad Institute, according to the statement. He did not return requests for comment early last week...
Lander’s role in the project catapulted him to scientific prominence, even earning him a spot on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of our time in 2004. The same year, he launched the Broad Institute to find applications for the new wealth of genetic data he helped obtain...