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Explosions of supernovae are the most spectacular phenomena in the universe, and among the most mysterious. Fortunately for everybody except impatient astronomers, they do not seem to occur very often. Each star system, such as N.G.C. 6964 and the earth's own Milky Way galaxy, is thought to average one such catastrophe in about 600 years. The brightest local outburst, thought to be a supernova, was Tycho's Star, which exploded in 1572 and was bright enough to be seen in daytime...
Most of the time, Dr. Ehrenwald reported last week in the quarterly American Journal of Psychotherapy, morning depression is just unpleasant. It can occur in people who are mentally and physically healthy. They are victims of "dissociated waking": i.e., they wake up by bits and pieces. Their bodies are awake, but their minds are still asleep. Or, he thinks, their consciences are awake and needling the rest of the still sleepy conscious mind to get up and go to work...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Intestinal Troubles. Victims of mucous colitis, spastic colitis, nonspecific ulcerative colitis are submissive, dependent, afraid of crowds. They are overneat, over-conscientious, "soft and weak-willed." Often they are badly adjusted sexually; attacks frequently occur during, or immediately after, honeymoons...
...this juncture the pundits have pretty much had their say. From now on until the Republican nominee is chosen, 'the journalist's job is not only to record the events that occur but also to tell how they came about. That takes considerable doing-and shoe leather, for which, as in the case of good detective work, there is sometimes no substitute...