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...scene, the criminals in Judge Colleen McNally's courtroom have little to fear. They are first offenders, convicted of possessing drugs for personal use--not of dealing--and, as such, benefit from a groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean for six weeks...
...Melfi's waiting room isn't doing a lot to help his rocky marriage. Still, those sessions on the couch in The Sopranos may be having an impact outside the show. More tough guys who never would have considered therapy are breaking down and seeing a shrink, and some say Tony is one reason. "Tony's a tough guy. But he is a tough guy who cries, takes Prozac and sees a therapist," says a 42-year-old screenwriter who recently tried out the couch. "It makes it more approachable for any number of guys." Felicia Einhorn, a New York...
...companies like Revell, Heller and Monogram made clunky plastic parts that needed filing upon removal from their sprues and molded castings that resembled gobs of melted cheese. Tamiya's models, on the other hand, were exemplary - pristine, perfect little gunwales, torpedoes and conning towers. The parts trees came shrink-wrapped and were rendered with such precision you could see the bolts on a battleship's antiaircraft cannon. And as a 13-year-old desperately trying to stall the onset of puberty, I needed to see those bolts...
...lesson missed is a Yale acceptance letter lost. The fear that sending junior outside to roam will end in reporting him missing to the police. Do we now have to add to these fears--some of them neurotic, others real--the fear that "play deprivation" will stunt kids' spirits, shrink their brains and even land them in jail? Such protective obsessing seems to be the problem, and doing more of it offers no solution. Parents should probably just tell kids that fooling around is bad for them, open the door and follow them outside. All work and no play...
Even simpler tools can make certain problems go away faster and shrink expense reports. In February, Cendant Corp. needed to design a facade for a hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, that was becoming a Day's Inn. Architects and designers drew up rough drafts in the Parsippany, N.J., headquarters of Cendant's hotel division--which operates 6,440 hotels in 24 countries. Then the New Jersey team e-mailed the designs to Egypt and arranged a conference call with the franchise designers and operators in Sharm El Sheikh. "Before this, we would have spent...