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This is one of the mysteries of anxiety. While it is a normal response to physical danger--and can be a useful tool for focusing the mind when there's a deadline looming--anxiety becomes a problem when it persists too long beyond the immediate threat. Sometimes there's an obvious cause, as with the shell-shocked soldiers of World War I or the terror-scarred civilians of the World Trade Center collapse. Other times, we don't know why we can't stop worrying...
...meantime, Kurzweil juggles several lucrative projects under the banner Kurzweil Technologies, descendants of his original work in pattern-recognition programs, which simulate human cognition: Medical Learning Co. provides doctors with broad health-care information and a "virtual patient" educational tool. At FatKat, Kurzweil runs both simulated trades and an actual experimental investment fund that uses pattern-recognition software to spot trends in financial markets; a hedge fund is in the works...
...rally in front of Phillips Brooks House, the newly appointed associate dean of public service, Judith H. Kidd, was decried as a tool of the University...
...says Cipriani, whose second and final mayoral term recently expired. "They just sat down and decided it at the table. It doesn't mean they might not start bringing back the bombs too." Italy got a disturbing reminder last week that violence is still a key Mafia tool and the female factor doesn't necessarily add up to a kinder, gentler organization. In a small town near Naples, a 30-year feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats...
...Boss. Ferguson, now 60, grew up in the shadow of the shipyard his family had worked in for generations in Govan, a district of Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers' rights were fought on the soccer pitch and the shop floor. As a trainee tool cutter and trade union organizer, Ferguson was at the front of an apprentices' strike for better pay in 1960 and again led a walkout in 1964 in support of a sacked colleague. "It was the fight for the fairness of things that got to me," Ferguson later told an interviewer...