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...their rage, they're increasingly willing to take to the streets, or sign up with what Beijing sees as dangerous millennarian cults. Accessing the World Trade Organization and integrating itself more completely into the international economy demands that Beijing accelerate rather than ease the pain of economic liberalization - a prospect that horrifies its more security-oriented hard-liners. To have come even this far down the capitalist road, Jiang's party has abandoned much of its communist ideology, but not its often brutally authoritarian monopoly on power. That leaves sharp differences over the country's future to be played...
...motives, we do know that suicide is an act of desperation. Statistics show that gay teens are over three times more likely than their straight peers to attempt suicide because they experience greater marginalization and loneliness. For someone like Mike who grew up craving success, praise and recognition, the prospect of living with homosexuality and the hatred it provokes must have seemed like an intolerable burden to bear...
...Harvard's 3-0 lead hung in the balance with the bases full of Quakers and only one man out, Walsh may well have bridled at the prospect of seeing his team blow a ninth-inning lead and begin the Ivy season with a 1-3 record...
Most psychologists now assign phobias to one of three broad categories: social phobias, in which the sufferer feels paralyzing fear at the prospect of social or professional encounters; panic disorders, in which the person is periodically blindsided by overwhelming fear for no apparent reason; and specific phobias--fear of snakes and enclosed spaces and heights and the like. Of the three, the specific phobias are the easiest to treat, partly because they are the easiest to understand...
...this patient, the problem wasn't mere low self-esteem but outright terror. To a social phobic, the mere prospect of a social encounter is frightening enough to cause sweating, trembling, light-headedness and nausea, accompanied by an overwhelming feeling of inadequacy. For some sufferers, the disorder is comparatively circumscribed--occurring only at large parties, say--making avoidance strategies seem easy. But social phobias can encroach into more and more areas of life, closing more and more doors. As sufferers grow increasingly isolated, they grow increasingly hopeless and risk developing such conditions as depression and alcoholism...