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At the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation convention in Atlanta last summer, Grayson, the Pennsylvania-based clinical psychologist, gave those in attendance who had OCD a quick taste of ERP. Inviting the ones in the audience with dirt and germ anxieties to come forward, he instructed them to sit beside him on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worry Hijacks The Brain | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Scooting Away from Justice It is difficult to fathom the extent to which the current U.S. Administration has gone to perpetrate clearly unconstitutional behavior in order to secure power [July 16]. What's even more surprisaing is how removed the American public is from the systemic constitutional affronts that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Party Lines | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

"Some people say we've lost our standing," former Representative Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, chairman of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), lamented at his organization's annual meeting in Nashville on July 30. "But if there ever was a time when the country needed the DLC... it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Pariahs | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

At a literary convention in Texas last weekend, after a speech by novelist Joyce Carol Oates on the nature of truth in memoirs, Talese took the opportunity to go after the queen of television. In an earlier discussion at the convention, Talese had already called Oprah's slap-down of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah vs. James Frey: The Sequel | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

Romantics might prefer that the great man be left alone, but the scientists aren't about to bow before convention or literary legend. "Sapere aude - that which one can know, one should dare to know," argues Hellmut Seemann, president of the Weimar Classics Foundation, a cultural institution that oversees a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schiller Skull Mystery | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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