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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone agrees. "There is no such thing as online therapy," says Dr. Thomas Nagy, a psychologist, Stanford professor and author of two books on ethics. "They're missing the nonverbal clues." For example, someone could claim to feel great but look disheveled and despondent in person. In an extreme case, notes Russ Newman, executive director of the American Psychological Association, a person could be talking to the online therapist while pointing a gun at his head; a dismissive comment from the therapist might just prompt the person to pull the trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Virtual Couch | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...what does it mean to be "a person of character?" prompts Mrs. Orsini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Character Goes Back To School | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with him. He had no equals. Now he has no successors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fine, Indecipherable Flourishes: SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...said during the campaign: the press is, in essence, blaming her for "being organized, disciplined and thinking carefully before I speak." There is indeed no hard evidence that Cabinet meetings are scripted, although the Secretary of Labor only added fuel to the widespread media speculation by saying, "One person's script is another person's extremely detailed agenda." Mrs. Dole's chastising of the Queen of Belgium for ad-libbing in the Oval Office has probably been overplayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Counting: The First 100 Days | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...ground in Belgrade verified the target. Since the embassy is a walled compound with a Chinese flag fluttering outside, it would have been easy enough to do. But that would have required a person. So, based on high-tech wizardry that Americans love, the target was deduced. There was no Belgrade-based human to ensure that all the maps, spy photos and databases had zeroed in on the proper target. That was the sixth mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Embassy Bombing: Small Steps to a Big Disaster | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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