Word: phobias
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...standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait of 10 min. or so per song--an annoyance that will disappear when we all get high-speed Net access. MP3 phobia is so great among record companies that Universal Records, the biggest, bolted from the pack last week and announced that it will be backing a competing standard to protect and sell online music by the end of the year...
...upping the ante. If the FDA agrees, and it probably will, SmithKline will soon be pushing Paxil as the first-ever formally sanctioned treatment for, of all things, shyness. This isn't as bizarre as it sounds. FDA approval would actually be for the treatment of "acute social phobia," a pathological form of shyness that's more akin to panic. For doctors, at least, it's no surprise that phobia and depression might be treated with the same drugs. "The big secret," says Dr. Brian Doyle, director of the anxiety disorders program at Georgetown Medical School, "is that we tend...
...from the raging romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite...
...from the raging romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite...
...hourlong tour of the grounds. And what impressed me most--besides the grotto, the monkeys and the Western-inspired bungalow designed by "this girl I was going with named Barbi Benton"--was the fact that there were jars of Vaseline everywhere. Hef, I figured, must have some weird phobia about chapped lips...