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...exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might first be shown a picture of a scalpel or syringe, then a real syringe, then a vial of blood and so on up the anxiety ladder until there are no more rungs to climb. There is a risk that if treatment is cut short (before the patient has become inured to the anxiety triggers), the anxious feelings could be exacerbated. But done right, behavioral therapy can bring relief from specific phobias in as little...
...some extent, computers and other machines already "sweat," after two generations of automating blue-collar jobs. And technology keeps climbing the occupational ladder. Asked how firms are making money by implementing new technology, Chris Meyer says, "There is a simple answer: the automation of white-collar work." Already, travel agents and stockbrokers have seen their business eroded by online travel and trading sites. Meyer adds that as the professional-services technologies improve, other occupations--including doctors and lawyers--may join automation's hit parade...
...hired as a special agent after earning her law degree in 1980. She took pride in being a pioneer, part of the first wave of women fighting to be taken seriously in the bureau's male-dominated, button-down culture. She worked her way up the ladder as an FBI lawyer--handling applications for searches and wiretaps, working organized-crime cases in New York City and becoming, in 1995, chief counsel in the Minneapolis field office. She won a reputation as a highly disciplined professional, opinionated, principled and supremely devoted to her job. For seven years in the 1990s...
...work examines the lives of the 13 men on duty at the New York Fire Department’s Engine 40 and Ladder 35 on Sept. 11, 2001, 12 of whom lost their lives during the World Trade Center attacks...
Reasonable women will gladly sacrifice a rung or two on the ladder of success if having a family is truly a priority. It's really not any more complicated than that. Women have always paid a higher price when it comes to having children, and they always will. NANCY MIXELL Oxford, Ohio...