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This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...between serotonin and aggressive behavior. Monkeys with high levels of serotonin by-products in their blood, it turns out, tend to be feistier, and drugs that boost serotonin activity tend to calm them down. The serotonin-violence link appears to hold for humans as well. In 1979 psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin, now at George Washington University, discovered that Navy enlisted men with low levels of serotonin byproducts often had a history of aggression. Subsequent studies discovered similar evidence in Marines discharged for excessive violence, in people who became violent after drinking alcohol and in children who tortured animals...
...Dallas-based Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade was somewhat more restrained. "Even if some of them died," says founder J.P. Goodwin, "at least they had a shot at freedom." That's true, says Bruce Coblentz, a professor of wildlife biology at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Coblentz allows that a few of the animals may survive in the wild. But the rest, he says, will just "die a different death than they would have otherwise...
...American Philological Association awarded Vermeule the Charles J. Goodwin award for her book Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Vermuele was the Association's president during...
Smith is survived by his wife, Sherley Goodwin Smith; two daughters, Julia Smith Nelligan and Allison Lloyd Smith; a son, Geoffrey; a sister, Suzanne Smith Mann; and three grandchildren...