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...children and their parents. One boy was so depressed at his high cholesterol reading that he refused to join friends at picnics and beach parties. Says Dr. Abraham Bergman of the University of Washington, who has studied the psychological toll on youngsters of benign heart murmurs and sickle-cell trait: "Children pay a price for being labeled." There is concern too that overzealous parents will put their offspring on overly stringent diets that can deprive them of essential calories and nutrients and stunt their growth...
...milk comes from cows on aerobic exercise programs." But beneath this talent is an immense desire to succeed. Perhaps O'Rourke's troubled childhood or his mother's death in 1973 helps explain this unfettered ambition, which, along with his right-wing politics, is about the worst trait anyone pins on him. He made some enemies when he took over National Lampoon. "He went from combat boots to two-tones over a weekend," says former Lampooner Sean Kelly, who calls him a chameleon. But even Kelly concedes a grudging respect for O'Rourke's success. Although Koreans are still smarting...
While Kerrigan speaks with a Southern accent, and maintains she's always had it, some say they don't really remember her displaying that trait when when she lived in Virginia. Geoff S. Keenan, who attended Langley High School with Kerrigan and who lives across the street from her house in Great Falls, Virginia, says he's "pretty sure" she didn't have the accent in high school...
...What we discovered after 15 years of work," Kagan said, "is that 15 percent of those children we studied inherited the biological trait of being inhibited." According to Kagan, these children were characterized, at four months of age, by being very reactive to the stimuli of his tests, crying and tensing their limbs...
...What is remarkable is the connection between a psychological trait and the autonomic nervous system that Professor Kagan has uncovered," Matthysse said. "Before, it was thought that shyness was an irreducible personality trait--no one thought that it might represent an overactive nervous system...