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Other fellows for 1995-96 include Eileen Applebaum, associate research director for the Washington based Economic Policy Institute; Lisa Dodson, senior research associate at the Health Institute of Tufts/New England Medical Center; Susan Eaton, a government consultant; Pamela Fraser-Abder, associate professor at New York University; Sharland Trotter, a psychologist and former editor of the American Psychological Association Monitor magazine; and Kirsten Wever, director of the German American Project of the International Industrial Relations Association
...before it rains, Seles has made a full physical recovery. She has even grown an inch--to 5 ft., 10 1/2 in.--and that seems to have given her even more leverage. The psychological scars, of course, were much harder to get over. She spent countless hours with sports psychologist Jerry Russell May, but it was finally Mark McCormack, the head of the all-powerful International Management Group, who cajoled her out of her isolation. Of the stabbing, Seles says, "I've put the whole thing in a box. If I need to open it, I will, but I hope...
Timothy Leary is not going gentle into the good night; he's going downright cheerfully. The puckish former Harvard psychologist and lsd fan has inoperable prostate cancer and told the L.A. Times he was thrilled when he found out: "How you die is the most important thing you ever do. I've been waiting for this for years...
There is a lesson here not just for policymakers but also for the rest of us. "It is human nature always to want a little more," writes the psychologist Timothy Miller in the recent book How to Want What You Have, perhaps the first self-help book based explicitly on evolutionary psychology. "People spend their lives honestly believing that they have almost enough of whatever they want. Just a little more will put them over the top; then they will be contented forever." This is a built-in illusion, Miller notes, engrained in our minds by natural selection...
...Military psychologist Dan Landis says, "There are all kinds of macho traditions that have grown up at the Citadel whose rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...