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...special access. Yet Gordon will climb out of his car after a practice run, and a growing swarm will be waiting to walk him to his trailer. Some of them will tug at him and shove things under his nose for autographs. In my first brief chat with Gordon, I ask if he's ever tempted to flick backhands at the jackals. "No," he says politely. "It's just part...
...more level playing field to great advantage. You see a product you like, a store you enjoy, a way-cool website--now you can do more work on it in your spare time than ever before. You can get e-mail alerts about it. You can chat about it with others. You can get comfortable with the fundamentals as never before. And if it goes down, you can buy more rather than kick it out in a panic. If your tax situation permits, you can take a quick gain without having it eaten up by commissions...
...Houston, found the therapists she saw to deal with her own stress either insincere or judgmental. When a friend suggested online therapy, Steele decided to give it a try. Now, each Tuesday night, she logs on to the website concernedcounseling.com for a 50-min. session in a private chat room, typing messages back and forth with a therapist she has never met in person. "He makes himself human," she says, "and he makes me feel human...
...couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes online therapy not only ineffective but unethical and possibly illegal. But two UCLA professors, Marion Jacobs and Andrew Christiansen, plan to publish a study in the journal Professional Psychology this fall showing that at least one kind of computerized counseling may actually work...
Jackson contends that seeing the potential for redemption even in a despot is a preacher's duty. His one-on-one chat with Milosevic must have sounded like a pastoral counseling session. "You're angry, perhaps hurt, recycling your pain," Jackson says he told the Serbian leader, adding, "Champions have to play through their pain. You have to see the power of a diplomatic bridge, not a bloody war." He insists that he stressed that Milosevic must withdraw his forces from Kosovo and agree to an international peacekeeping force and repatriation of refugees, as NATO demands...