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Happily, Garbage's sophomore album, Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds) doesn't live up--or down--to the band's name. The quartet, based in Madison, Wis., and consisting of singer Shirley Manson (originally from Edinburgh, Scotland), guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, and drummer Butch Vig (who produced Nirvana's album Nevermind), had never played outside the studio before recording their debut album, Garbage, in 1995. Their inexperience showed: while the album had its moments, it often felt indecisive and inorganic. In the past three years, Garbage has had a chance to tour, and now it sounds more like...
...Marker and Erikson had played together and separately in a number of small, Wisconsin-area bands. One night they saw Manson on MTV fronting another band, called Angelfish. They tracked her down, asked her to join their nascent group, and Garbage was launched. "Madison is isolated, so we're kind of removed from the music business or the distractions you may have in New York, Los Angeles, London or Paris," says Vig. "It's a great city, but there's not much to do, so everyone kind of leaves us to our own devices...
Maturity, said Erik Erikson, the famous explorer of the human life cycle, is when you wake up on your 50th birthday and don't regret your life. My classmates and I in the Radcliffe class of '67 have reached that daunting milestone. So what's our answer...
Empathy too can be seen as a survival skill. Bert Cohler, a University of Chicago psychologist, and Fran Stott, dean of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development in Chicago, have found that children from psychically damaged families frequently become hypervigilant, developing an intense attunement to their parents' moods. One child they studied, Nicholas, had a horrible habit of approaching other kids in his nursery-school class as if he were going to kiss them, then would bite them instead. The scientists went back to study videos of Nicholas at 20 months interacting with his psychotic mother...
...feel secure is that you have people working on complimentary projects so they're checking on each other," says Raymond L. Erikson. American Cancer Society professor of cellular and developmental biology. "If each experiment builds on others, there's a built-in check mechanism...