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...marshal looking for terrorists. At any moment, somebody could whip out a bagel or a danish. I do well in restaurants, where there's a lot of ambient noise and distraction, but one-on-one meals are a minefield. And don't get me started on popcorn. When I go to a movie theater, every movie is a horror movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...making it let go, Dr. N said. Don't let it touch the carton. It took a lot of effort, but I did it. The creature wanted to touch the milk, but if I tried, I could stop it. When I did, the fear went away. I practiced that - letting the creature reach for something, making it stop, making it back away. The better I got at controlling the creature, the easier my phobia was to control. I even talked to it. I asked it what it wanted and why it wouldn't leave me alone. It wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...still living with it. For whatever reason, my treatment has not been successful. I can't always make the fear go away. Maybe that means there's more to the problem than bad wiring. There are feelings down there too - old, dark, unmapped feelings - and I'm going to have to deal with them before the fear leaves me alone. My phobia is a part of me - an ugly part, by the looks of it. I'm going to have to get to know that demon better. Because it's not going to leave till it's good and ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...teaching, but I didn't see anybody like me," says Butler, 57, a solidly built, hazel-eyed African-American pharmacist from Oklahoma. "I didn't have any problem with the people, but I didn't know if they had a problem with me. So I thought, 'I'll go elsewhere.' " Other minorities who sampled the church felt similarly uncomfortable. Yet Butler returned to Willow in the early '80s, later inviting his wife Renetta and, as he says, "hoping things would change." (Read The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...rabidness of her supporters, believing that they can't be swayed by facts and worried about getting crosswise with the most highly energized part of the Republican base, McCainworld has shied away from fighting for the soul of the party, instead allowing her version of reality to go largely unchallenged - and her rise to continue unchecked. There was perhaps a related factor: a recent ABC-Washington Post poll found that Republicans regard Palin as the 2012 front runner for their party's nomination and that she best represents the GOP's values - besting McCain himself on that score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her GOP Critics Unleashed, Will Palin Fire Back? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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