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...second reason people may consider suicide. This may also occur when one feels unable to live up to the expectations of others--the expectations that may have also come to define one's own sense of self-esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance leads to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self-destructive behavior...
...Bill the tousle-haired billionaire is back, bursting with business advice and all the exuberance of a boy genius. Sun, Apple, IBM and Intel are merely examples of companies that use digital nervous systems. You'd never guess they also play a major part in the feds' case. "Trial" to this Gates means nothing more than putting a new software product through its paces...
That's also why the monarchy's peripatetic Petroleum Minister, Ali Naimi, was trying last week to broker production cuts among major oil producers to sop up a global glut that has recently pushed prices to a 12-year low, barely higher in real terms than in 1973. After several days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude...
...idolized by millions who never saw him hit or catch a baseball. During the 13 seasons Joe DiMaggio played center field for the New York Yankees, baseball was still the national pastime, but one that a majority of fans followed from afar. The 16 major league teams were clustered in only 10 cities, with St. Louis as the westernmost outpost. In that pre-television era, sports heroes were made out of words, those spoken over the radio during play-by-play broadcasts and those printed in newspapers the next morning. No wonder legends arose. Most people experienced baseball by reading...
DIED. YEHUDI MENUHIN, 82, icon of 20th century music and world-renowned humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included...