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Firefighters, police trainers - even stockbrokers - have told me similar stories of seeing people freeze under extreme stress. Animals go into the same state when they are trapped, evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. has found. Playing dead can discourage predators from attacking. In the case of the Estonia and other disasters, the freezing response may have been a natural and horrific mistake. Our brains search, under extreme stress, for an appropriate survival response and sometimes choose the wrong one, like deer that freeze in the headlights...
...does the Democratic Party have superdelegates? Dan Moreman Jr. SHREVEPORT...
...lazy effort to wring a few more bucks out of dated material. Not this one. Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times who spent a decade at FORTUNE, energetically updates some of the biggest business stories of the past two decades. Warren Buffett, T. Boone Pickens Jr. and Henry Blodget, among others, get the close-up Nocera treatment, which uses their stories to explain the intricacies of business to readers. His smart writing and keen insight are a treat for those who find Steve Jobs a more compelling celebrity than Britney Spears...
High Performance With High Integrity By Ben W. Heineman Jr. Harvard Business; 198 pages...
...sold in DVD form on street corners in major cities across the country. Defense attorneys have also challenged the competence of the case's detectives - questioning, for instance, why they didn't bother to interview Kelly immediately after the tape surfaced. In his opening arguments, defense attorney Sam Adam Jr., said of the tape: [This] "evidence is, at best, a copy of a copy of a copy - that went through an editing process. But, who did the editing? We don't know." Can prosecutors prove that Kelly is the man who made the tape, Adam asked. "I'm telling...