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...shock. In most cases the grieving move on, following familiar steps that include anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. Last week's blasts, however, may have ripped out that recovery route. "A woman kisses her husband goodbye, and the next thing she sees, the whole damn building falls down," says psychiatrist Marvin Lipkowitz of Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. "There's a limit to what the mind can take...
...takes an enormous amount of confidence to ask people to hire you for your interpretation of their taste. Bridges has that, but without hubris. "People have such a glamorous image of interior designing," she says. "There are days that I play delivery person, attorney, psychiatrist, tech-support staff and bill collector." Decoration isn't social justice. It does take a lot of shopping. But to do it well is to improve people's lives in a way they couldn't do themselves...
...physicians use a "functional brain scan" to measure a general loss in function. "This is often useful in persuading the patient that something is wrong," says Dr. Stephen Read, a Los Angeles psychiatrist. But the scan can't make fine distinctions between, say, the ability to pay bills and trade stocks...
...astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady state" theory, which maintains the universe has no beginning or end; in Bournemouth, England. DIED. OSCAR JANIGER, 83, psychiatrist whose experiences on LSD inspired him to become one of the first Americans to study psychedelic drugs in the 1950s and early '60s; in Torrance, California. To examine the link between LSD and creativity he tested the drug on 1,000 volunteers, including Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson...
...odds of meeting Mr. Right, or even Mr. Right Now, seemed pretty slim at my summer jobs; I planned to edit a “self-help” book for a Harvard medical school psychiatrist and to teach music to kids with HARMONY, a PBH summer program. Since I’m a closet workaholic and could always use more money, and since my plans to do “thesis research” were all lies anyway, I added another job to my schedule. I got one working at the Harvard Events and Information Office in the Holyoke...