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...Rosen, who wrote Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity (Nicholas-Hays), cites the movie About Schmidt, in which Jack Nicholson's title character, a retired insurance actuary, is saved from aimlessness and depression by his connection through a charity to a child in Africa. "That little thread of contact with a child outside was also Schmidt's child inside," says Rosen. When it comes to exploring, through therapy, what that inner voice might be saying, however, many men consider such an approach "unmanly," Rosen says...
...like shape. Eleven exist in animals?dogs, cats, rats, mice, pigs, cows, rabbits and turkeys?and two infect the human race, in which they produce that most familiar of all ailments: the common cold. Scientists, who have long suspected that humans were originally infected with common-cold coronaviruses by contact with an unknown animal many centuries ago, had already posited a possible animal connection in the current outbreak. The fact that many of the initial victims in China's southern province of Guangdong worked in livestock markets and restaurants was also a promising indicator. After the virus's genome...
...cats proved positive for the virus in the small-scale study, which was a relief. But, Zheng adds, his team wasn't screening for infected pets. Zheng speculates that SARS could have reached humans from civets through an intermediary host, such as a domesticated animal species with even closer contact with humans...
Gross said that his contact with his brother had been “shoddy” since the attack, as his brother had not been allowed into his room since the bombing...
...Eventually, family members were given a Baghdad contact through which to reach US operatives. Meanwhile, Numan's son-in-law, a medical doctor, was reportedly taken into custody in hopes of convincing him to lead them to Numan. But the son-in-law refused and was released...