Word: psychopathics
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...take an iron projectile to reshape one's ethics. How about a virus? A birth injury? A genetic defect? It is quite possible that some of history's greatest villains harbored an unseen wound much like Gage's in the prefrontal cortex. Such may be the condition of all psychopaths. This is not to say that experience has no relevance to character. Abuse during childhood, experience of all sorts is inscribed on the brain. But childhood traumas have never fully explained the psychopath, says Dr. Solomon Snyder, director of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "It's not as though...
...discrete part of the brain that uses a specific neurotransmitter, we could develop a drug treatment," suggests Dr. Snyder. It might even be possible to devise exercises to fortify wayward judgment, just as a stroke patient can benefit from occupational therapy. Another possibility: a prenatal test -- abort the psychopath...
...Beverly Hills, California. The casually masculine Carey was a dependable lead in Golden Age Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 50 films, including Alfred Hitchcock's small-town nail biter Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which featured Carey as a G-man on the trail of amiable psychopath Joseph Cotten. Carey is perhaps most beloved by viewers of daytime television, where for three decades he played the perpetually understanding Dr. Tom Horton on nbc's Days of Our Lives -- and provided the show's trademark voice-over: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives...
Butch Haynes (Costner), a "criminal's criminal," has broken out of jail along with Terry (Keith Szarabajka), a garden-variety psychopath. The convicts terrorize a mother and her children and take seven-year-old Phillip (T.J. Lowther) hostage. Tracking their flight is a Texas Ranger posse led by Eastwood, your basic righteous cowboy emeritus, and sparked by Laura Dern, a Governor's aide who brings feminist compassion and common sense to the pursuit. Bad guys, good guys, vroom-vroom...
...think the risks are worth it. A TIME-Yankelovich poll last week showed that 66% of Americans oppose military intervention. Resistance in Congress is equally strong. Not everyone agrees with Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who has referred to Aristide as "a psychopath" and "a demonstrable killer," alluding to charges that have been around since the 1991 coup that Aristide was mentally ill, approved assassinations and had encouraged mobs of his supporters to kill his political foes with flaming tires called "necklaces." But there are nagging doubts about Aristide's character and ability, reinforced last week when a senior...