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This odyssey is not merely an epic adventure. "The achievement won't be just to go around the world," says the man behind the project, Bertrand Piccard, "but to encourage a complete paradigm shift on how we use energy." Piccard, a 49-year-old Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut, knows a thing or two about high-altitude derring-do. In 1999, he and a partner, Brian Jones, became the first people to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon, but it rankled Piccard that doing so required burning nearly four tons of propane gas. "The balloon flight was a personal dream...
...move beyond themes of loneliness, humility, self-degradation, and naiveté. According to Michaelis, Schulz harnessed this pervasive sadness in his life to aid his work; his wife Joyce comments that Schulz “was always sad” but that when she suggested he go see a psychiatrist, he simply answered that he didn’t want to, because “it will take away [his] talent.” While these details about Schulz are interesting and even endearing, they seem only to inevitably add to the mastery of the comics, and not so much...
...laid out by the World Medical Association would provide medical students with a greater awareness of military ethics. “I feel like even a couple of hours, maybe even over lunchtime talks, would represent a great improvement,” said Boyd, who is also an attending psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance...
...Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist with the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, started the study after hearing media reports that U.S. doctors had been complicit in intense interrogations, torture and other abuses. Among the allegations: they let jailers know if prisoners were fit enough to survive abuse, shared medical information such as phobias or other vulnerabilities and altered the death certificates of detainees who died from mistreatment...
...with her there, but then why dissect the story of Phaeton (Matthew I. Bohrer ’10) and Apollo (Hill) with such ruthless precision? Why have Apollo’s son tell his story to a long-winded psychiatrist, who tears Phaeton’s tale to shreds with psychoanalytical terminology? If the value of myth is its magical elusiveness, why pin it down? Fables may have morals, but myths do not, and this may be a distinction that Zimmerman forgot to make...