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...instance-to give psychologists ideas about what kind of personalities are involved. Says Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Institute: "These people are often stirred to excitement by news reports. They may have longstanding impulses, barely contained, that are triggered by these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than not to be wanted at all." Morrison and other psychologists are virtually sure that no copycat is the Tylenol killer...
...sort of product off a grocery or drugstore shelf? Psychologist Schueneman, who predicted the wave of copycat tamperings, provides a kind of backhand reassurance. He says, "I think it will be short-lived." His reasoning: before long, copycat tamperings will become so common that they will no longer provide thrill seekers with the excitement that they crave...
...When a Milwaukee fan caught his home run in Game 5 and tried to give the baseball back, Yount told him, "Why don't you keep it? I'll sign it for you." As the man floated away, Yount murmured: "He'll get more of a thrill out of it than I will...
...computer fanatics and other users of the Kiewitt Computer System at Dartmouth College, the Xcalibur program offers the thrill of chatting with other people and even developing a close relationship without ever having to meet the parties involved...
Paradoxically, B&G's elaborate security measures seem only to fuel interest in the tunnels which owe their widespread appeal largely to their secrecy. "The thrill is beating the system." Tribble says of student trysts in the tunnels. Certainly the food tunnels, which run parallel to the steam lines from Kirkland to Leverett House, have little of this vaporish mystique. (Though the food tunnels do have a history of their own--it was through these passages that Secretary of Defense MacNamara eluded angry demonstrators during his visit to Harvard.) Although the food tunnels are also closed, students are occasionally granted...