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Greenwich police chief James Walters told reporters the day after the body was discovered that investigators had interviewed Hayley Kissel and that she had been cooperative. The widow spoke only through her attorney. "She right now is focused on her children and trying to help them cope with the loss of their father," says lawyer Joseph Martini. According to Martini, Kissel's father asked his son's widow to stay away from Andrew's funeral. "She plans to make other arrangements so that her children can say goodbye to their father," he says...
...question whether things are predictable,” Koenen said. “You can feel helpless.”But while witnessing the aftermath of a disaster exacts an emotional toll, volunteering may help mediate the sense of helplessness.“One of the ways humans cope is by helping people,” Koenen said. “You’re able to actually improve someone’s life or aid people, and it can make the situation seem meaningful.”‘BLOCK AFTER BLOCK’A day after gutting...
...Next year, the federal government and 13 states will conduct a two-week exercise focusing on how to cope with a New Madrid zone earthquake. They'll have a lot to plan for. Two government studies conducted in the wake of Katrina predicted that a 7.7 quake could kill up to 4,200 Memphis residents and injure another 70,000; destroy or damage 200,000 homes in the city of 1 million people; render one third of all hospital beds useless the day after the quake; and cause about $70 billion in damages. "My previous director used...
...problem with a pandemic, by definition, is that it strikes everywhere at once. And according to a 2005 report by Trust for America's Health, a non-profit that focuses on disease prevention, few states are prepared to cope with major disease outbreaks on their own. The report found problems at every level: nearly half the states did not adequately track disease outbreaks; hospitals in almost one third of states weren't prepared to cope with a surge in patients; and 21 states did not have sufficient backup supplies to ventilate even 10 additional patients, never mind the thousands that...
...memes - cultural ideas that can spread, mutate and survive in our minds, whether or not they are good for us. Meanwhile in Oxford, England, researchers at the Centre for the Science of the Mind are subjecting volunteers to severe pain to see if religious belief can help them cope with physical suffering. As a developmental biologist at London's University College, and one of Britain's loudest champions of the public understanding of science, Wolpert covers genes, memes, pain and various other angles in his book. But rather than just arm wrestling with God's faithful, his book attempts...