Word: mentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy mental accounting that prompts me twice a year to cancel my HBO subscription while simultaneously buying more cell-phone minutes...
...according to the Houston Chronicle. When he was 16, he was charged with killing a 24-year-old in the courtyard of a housing project. A grand jury indicted Harris as an adult on first-degree murder charges, but then two years went by while the court considered his mental competency. In time, the D.A.'s office dropped the charges after a key witness's testimony was deemed inadmissible. Harris went free in June 2004 and, less than a month later, was rearrested on a weapons charge. For the next two years, he cycled in and out of jail...
...this summer in such uncharted territory,” wrote Heuer, a Cabot House philosophy concentrator. Jillian N. London ’07, a philosophy concentrator in Adams House, will spend the summer in London examining the political and ethical implications of providing care to individuals who suffer from mental disorders or drug abuse without their permission. “To get people into rehab programs is really difficult if they have drug abuse problems,” she said. “I’ve always sort of wondered, is that right? Should we be doing more...
Video games are an unusual medium in that they carry a heavy stigma among nongamers. Not everybody likes ballet, but most nonballet fans don't accuse ballet of leading to violent crime and mental backwardness. Video games aren't so lucky. There's a sharp divide between gamers and nongamers, and the result is a market that, while large and devoted--last year video-game software and hardware brought in $27 billion--is also deeply stagnant. Its borders are sharply defined, and they're not expanding...
...those grim days between the accident and contact with rescuers, "these men, I suspect, would have confided in each other things they'd never previously told anyone . . . that's what the fear of death does," says Beverley Raphael, who heads a University of Western Sydney unit specializing in mental health issues arising from disasters. And as married men and fathers of three, Webb and Russell would have been sustained, Raphael suspects, by what she calls "attachment ideation"-the instinct, under stress, to dwell on loved ones and a determination to see them again...