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...suicide was what turned me around," says O'Barry. "The [animal entertainment] industry doesn't want people to think dolphins are capable of suicide, but these are self-aware creatures with a brain larger than a human brain. If life becomes so unbearable, they just don't take the next breath. It's suicide." (See the top 10 animal stories...
...study provides that account of animal suicide and many others - that of a canvasback duck, a cat, pelicans, scorpions - but intentionally doesn't address the issue of whether these animals or any others are technically capable of ending their own lives. Thomas Joiner, a Florida State University psychologist, does take that stand. His new book, Myths About Suicide, links the suicidal tendencies of living creatures. "Across nature there seems to be the same kind of calculation," says Joiner. "Is my death worth more than my life? Suicides of all kinds involve this calculation, from bacteria and insects to conventional suicide...
...talked a lot about being in your ideal performance phase,” Rhoads said. “Having an actual result is pretty far removed from the things that we can control. I’m really more looking at our controllable factors, and the results take care of themselves…the score just ends up being a byproduct of those things...
...Crimson knows that it will take consistent play from the game’s opening minutes—rather than the play of any one individual—to get on the right side of the win column...
...lost a net 36,000 jobs, which is leagues better than the 726,000 lost in February a year earlier but points in the wrong direction all the same. Were the economy to magically start generating jobs at a healthy clip - say, 200,000 a month - it would still take 3½ years to return to where we were, never mind the jobs we need for new entrants to the workforce...