Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just when Gore seemed to be running out of steam on the stump, Tipper has been pretty much everywhere, talking about Littleton on Larry King Live, acknowledging to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal that she has suffered from depression, traveling around the country to push mental-health reform. If it didn't have the look and feel of a campaign rollout, it certainly had the desired effect. Her depression admission--and the simple fact that she talks like a mom and not like...
...self-aware, conscious of things he can do better, and works at it." Summers, who has made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact. "Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity," wrote Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal. In diplomatic circles, his untucked shirts, mismatched socks and bluntness have seemed odd to some. But there is no doubt that he can deliver the conceptual goods...
...website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes online therapy not only ineffective but unethical and possibly illegal. But two UCLA professors, Marion Jacobs and Andrew Christiansen, plan to publish a study in the journal Professional Psychology this fall showing that at least one kind of computerized counseling may actually work...
Converts find anonymity to be online therapy's greatest selling point. Too embarrassed, ashamed or self-conscious to look a therapist in the eye, some find typing onscreen as direct and honest as writing in a journal. "I've never been good at expressing myself face to face," says Steele, 36, who says she feels less inhibited when typing onscreen. Elizabeth, 27, a graduate student in Southern California who has hidden her eating disorders from her family for more than 14 years, says online therapy helps her think less about her weight and more about the feelings that cause...
When University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon makes an important discovery, he doesn't break the news at a scientific meeting or even in a peer-reviewed journal. First he tells the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a group of Roman Catholic nuns who have given their bodies--and, after death, their brains--to help Snowdon study the slow mental wasting known as Alzheimer's disease...