Word: couchful
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DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...career of an obscure Canadian singer, it’s the game’s commercials that get everyone—from the most casual of observers to the self-described fanatics like yours truly—pumped for the ultimate lesson in how to be an American couch potato...
...said, “I wouldn’t recommend it.” But Langer says that if a person truly believes what he or she is doing is exercise, the benefits will ensue, even if that exercise consists of lifting a remote control while sitting on a couch. “If people can fully persuade themselves that what they’re doing is exercise, this effect will work,” said Langer. “But most people aren’t led to believe, and so it won’t work...
...always, he has no shortage of work, with albums by Kanye West, Metallica and Linkin Park in various stages of readiness, but the project that's closest to his heart is a sixth and final album from his recordings with Johnny Cash. Settling onto his couch, Rubin plays a Cash version of Redemption Day, an overlooked song from a 1996 Sheryl Crow album. "Johnny found this," he says. "I'd never heard it, but it's perfect for him." Rubin was worried that he might have to tinker more than usual with some of the songs in the singer...
...behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical couch is gaining favor over pills as the main tool of treatment for many conditions, with training institutions recently increasing their emphasis on psychotherapy. "We really want to get the balance right," says Charles Le Feuvre, chair of the r.a.n.z.c.p.'s Psychotherapy Section, "and it may indeed be the case that things have...