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...Room 212 at the A.M.A. center the assertiveness class is already under way. Our first volunteer is Karen, a 29-year-old specialist in inventory control, who is still trembling from a run-in with her boss, C.E. Ogre. In a role-playing session with her classmates, she relives the scene: Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling...
...Soviets have shared their knowledge about long-term spaceflight, mostly through informal contacts rather than formal publication. Says one NASA specialist: "We have a book summarizing these lessons. We've got their diets. We try to make our people very aware of what the Soviets have done, because our own experience is all short duration and our data base is very...
...Valentin Pokrovsky, a Soviet AIDS specialist, said in June that only seven patients, six of them foreigners, were undergoing hospital treatment for AIDS in the Soviet Union. About 30 foreigners had been treated and deported, he told TASS, while six more would be sent home later. He also said that the one Soviet patient, a homosexual who had caught the disease during a trip abroad, had infected 14 others, presumably all Soviets, who had been treated in a hospital and sent home but were being kept under observation...
...stresses of bumper-to-bumper competition, aggravated by the easy availability of guns. There is also the copycat syndrome. "Even the most mild-mannered among us has fantasies of blowing away the guy who cuts in front of him," observes Dr. Martin Brenner, an Orange County stress specialist. His advice: "Just be a wimp behind the wheel...
...third day, Collins' lawyer, well-known Palimony Specialist Marvin Mitchelson, brought in a pretty scene stealer: Romina Danielson, 23, an Italian-Iranian who said she had been Holm's lover through much of his 13- month marriage to Collins. While Collins glowered, Danielson testified that Holm had called her "my little passion flower" and had murmured, "You're not only sexy but young." Having divulged her story, the little passion flower suddenly wilted and fell to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. Denying . her tale as "absolute rubbish," Holm said he still loved Collins and hoped for a reconciliation...