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In the onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning...
In that sense, the Net offers the same sort of intrusive contact with people in their homes that has made telemarketing a multibillion-dollar business. Just as lonely people often are vulnerable to pitchmen who call them at home, some maladjusted or immature people are unusually receptive to online conversations...
By calling attention to the unhealthy synergy between Alzheimer's and stroke, the School Sisters of Notre Dame have performed an enormous service. But they're not yet finished with their work. Long-term epidemiological studies, like fine wines, improve with age, and thus new findings from the Nun Study...
In One World, Ready or Not (Simon & Schuster; 528 pages; $27.50) William Greider examines the forces behind this global economic revolution, comparing them to a giant agricultural machine that "throws off enormous mows of wealth and bounty while it leaves behind great furrows of wreckage." Greider, the national editor of...
"Substantive issues have been crowded out of discourses on politics," Rich said. "With the rise of TV, with the enormous growth and prosperity of this country since World War II, people have less time for [news] and less interest in it."