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...Internet never lets you escape your past. There are incriminating Facebook photos, e-mail mishaps and, for Al Franken, years and years of comedy footage that takes on new meaning now that the SNL alum has thrown off his Stuart Smalley cardigans in favor of dark suits and Senate-appropriate power ties...
...Lily had a hard time figuring out what was behind such dark emotions, she was in good company. When a psychoanalyst named Adolph Stern coined the term borderline in the 1930s, borderline patients were said to be those between Freud's two big clusters: psychosis and neurosis. Borderlines, Stern wrote rather poetically, exhibit "psychic bleeding - paralysis in the face of crises." Later, in the 1940s, Dr. Helene Deutsch said borderlines experience "inner emptiness, which the patient seeks to remedy by attaching himself or herself to one after another social or religious group." By 1968, when Basic Books published the groundbreaking...
...most debilitated patients can achieve. "Generally," she writes, "I have patients follow their breath ... and try to let their focus settle into their physical center, at the bottom of their inhalation. That very centered point is wise mind." Lily remembers this sensation clearly; she came to feel that her dark moods had a physical location in her body - her solar plexus - and when she focused on it, she could deactivate a destructive emotion...
...entirety of the Milky Way, including its elusive inner galaxy, which is "really complicated and weird," Pohl says, because of the gravitational pull of a large bar of matter located at the center; the map will be particularly useful to a research group in France that has been studying dark matter, which, as Reid's team has established, the Milky Way has a lot more of than previous studies had revealed. Dark matter, so called because it gives off little or no light, is one of the most abundant elements in the universe (it constitutes 23% of the universe...
Rantissi was Hamas' political leader in Gaza when we met in a dark safehouse in April 2002. The second Palestinian intifadeh was at its height. The previous week, Israeli troops had bulldozed into the refugee camp in Jenin, in the West Bank, smashing the infrastructure of another militant group, Islamic Jihad, but also killing civilians. Israeli forces were easily beating Hamas forces in Gaza too; in Ramallah, Yasser Arafat was practically under house arrest as Israeli snipers took up position around the seat of the Palestinian government...