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...WHOLE, A LITTLE ANXIETY IS A VERY good thing. It was not enough for humans in the state of nature to know there was no lion near the family cave; they also had to be able to imagine all the other places a lion could lurk. The same is true for other eccentricities of human behavior. Our anxiety about all the ways harm may befall someone else keeps us mindful of the safety of family and community. "There's a creative, what-if quality to this thinking," says clinical psychologist Jonathan Grayson of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center...
...individuals, like myself, probably just wanted the phone and wondered if it was worth the high cost. And 3% visited a MySpace page from an iPhone query, most likely to show off their bling to their cyber-friends, while 2.8% visited Wikipedia, perhaps having just come out of a cave, wondering what all this iPhone craze was about...
...took another flight into verbal fancy. "Nothing of value is free," he declared. "It is very easy... to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where common sense is lured and then quietly strangled...
...After the proposed legislation was announced, Cave says she was overwhelmed with e-mails and phone calls from jurors across the state who had been haunted by what they saw and heard during their service. "My heart goes out to them. These are people who are trying to do their job - people like me, people with a couple of kids who have to go home from this each day and cook supper, do homework," Cave says. "The more they are told not to talk about something, the harder it becomes to ever talk about...
...Cave is celebrating her daughter's 23rd birthday by lobbying Texas legislators and hoping that by the time an alleged accomplice goes on trial this summer, the counseling program will be in place. "Jennifer is gone, but the life she had remains," Cave says. "I tried to give everything in my heart to those jurors, and it would be a travesty if we don't take care of them. But as they say, tragedy is often the catalyst for change...