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...Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent. 6. Every time Dafoe does his police work with loud, melodramatic classical music in the background. 7. Every time Dafoe sends the incompetent Boston-PD detective for coffee. 8. OK, we can’t name ‘em all so just take a shot whenever Dafoe does something annoying. 9. When you see the Harvard motto written on one of the brothers’ left hands. 10. Every time Ron Jeremy appears on screen...
...equally useful are a variety of wireless picture transferring and printing options-just select a shot you like and send it to the computer or printer without ever taking your hands off your camera. You can send shots to any printer connected to a computer, but with the optional PD-10 Wireless Print Adapter ($50; out in mid-October), you can also wirelessly send shots straight to any PictBridge-enabled printer...
...Baghdad PD Targets of terrorism, Iraqi police walk a tough beat...
...found that matched pairs--with their matched genetic blueprints--were more likely to share personality disorders than unmatched pairs. The borderline personality had an estimated 69% level of heritability. This confirms the observations of doctors in the field who notice higher rates of personality disorders among descendants of PD sufferers. "There are almost certainly multiple genes involved in predisposing people to PDs," says Gunderson...
Whatever the specific roots of the conditions, once those environmental and genetic die are cast, is that it for the disordered personality? The short, bleak answer is often yes--at least as long as PD patients resist acknowledging the problem. Anxiety disorders such as phobias are generally referred to as ego-dystonic illnesses: the sufferer acknowledges the problem and wants to do something about it. Personality disorders are ego syntonic: individuals believe that the drama, self-absorption and other traits that characterize their condition are reasonable responses to the way the world is treating them. That's a hard patient...