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...when the Food and Drug Administration finally approved Norplant, a long-lasting contraceptive that is implanted under the skin. Already available in 16 other countries, the method not only is highly effective but also provides five years of protection against pregnancy with a single implant. How American women will respond to this new alternative, though, is not clear, since Norplant's long-term safety has yet to be fully studied, and it does have a few side effects. Some critics fear that the five-year implant will be used by policymakers as a way of forcing contraception on women deemed...
...some of that protest lost sight of its real concerns and spurred a counter-culture which seemed rooted more in self-interest than in moralistic opposition to U.S. policy. But today's protesters have no rationale for their anti-war rhetoric--they respond to any movement of troops simply by reflex. Their protests are short-sighted and illinformed. Just how much so can be seen in their rhetoric...
There are political conundrums too: Would Saddam Hussein respond to American air raids by bombing or missile attacks on Israel, and if so, would the inevitable Israeli counterattack speed a U.S. military victory or be outweighed by the defection of Arab governments and armies so far committed to the anti-Saddam cause? "War is an unpredictable art, not a calculable science," says Admiral William Crowe, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a comment that in relation to a Persian Gulf war seems an understatement...
...addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control, rejects the idea of addiction as a disease and questions the A.A. 12-step model's effectiveness. He charges, "We no longer have a moral basis on which to disapprove of, or respond to, misbehavior. We have given self-declared addicts their defense: they were blinded by their disease." He also criticizes the underlying theory shared by Beattie and others. "It's ironic and humorous that the main way people define their problems is that they help others too much. With homelessness...
Attitude more than actual events determines how individuals respond to a financial setback. Joseph Cassius, a clinical psychologist from Memphis, catalogs people's reactions according to their personality type. A person whose early family life was marked by chaotic dislocations such as divorce, he says, will see a recession as a catastrophic event that could destroy him. Individuals with dependent personalities who lose their jobs may feel abandoned and show their frustration by, for instance, voting against the party in power. Those who usually feel in control of every situation may be especially stunned by unexpected economic setbacks. "The perfectionist...