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Leon Tec M.D., child psychiatrist and author of Targets and Fear of Success, says that Harvard students and professors probably have as many fears as everyone else. Yet MIT might outrank the Real World and Harvard: While "people who have a good understanding of what is going on need not be more anxious," he says, "scientists don't necessarily have more perspective. MIT may have more people with anxiety dreams. There are more suicides...
...fact, Steiner didn't even manage to outrank the members of the Harvard band. He sat directly behind them in the corner of the Garden. And although he couldn't hear the sound of flesh and blood crashing against the Garden's plexi-glass barriers, the band's rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard" must have been loud and clear. And given the final score--8-2, Boston University over Harvard--it was probably better that...
...Ohio, and female mayors elsewhere were easily reelected. Houstonians gave businesslike Mayor Kathy Whitmire, 37, a second term by a lopsided (64% to 35%) margin. San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein was even more unstoppable: her five challengers together could muster only 21% of the vote. Collins of Kentucky may outrank her, but Feinstein, 50, has more Democratic Party clout than any other woman...
...Ebla may outrank them all. For the tablets reveal the unsuspected existence of an urbane culture that gathered some 30,000 traders, farmers, bureaucrats, artisans and an extraordinary academy of scribes within the circular walls of a great commercial city. Moreover, Ebla dominated an outlying area of perhaps 300,000 people, one of the largest populations of any ancient city-state. The discovery has closed the archaeological gap between Egypt and, to the east, Sumer...
...armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...