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...hand, says Yale psychologist Salovey, "I love the idea that we want to teach people a richer understanding of their emotional life, to help them achieve their goals." But, he adds, "what I would oppose is training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "You can teach that...
...captain Susie DeLellis put the nail in the coffin at the 74:15 point, off a feed from Stauffer, and the rest of the game was given to hone the bench...
...improvement, blond ambition, because it's there. In the pursuit of distant goals, kids can be wonderfully stubborn: some forge themselves into Olympic figure skaters, others into masters of the 18-ft. jump shot. The pageant hopeful may have this doggedness. She can't get prettier, but she can hone her talent, polish her poise. By the time she makes the top 50, she has become a curious hybrid: the professional amateur...
Granted, farmers have had centuries upon centuries to hone their trade, whereas the Information Age is only a few years old. But hey, things move quickly in the computer industry, right...
...pretty close to hectic. Why? Although you are among the nation's finest, Blodgett Pool's lack of a 10-meter platform severely limits your ability to train in Cambridge. Instead, you must find other means and other locales--traveling five days early to a tournament, perhaps--to hone your skills...