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Readers of these books may wonder why anyone should care about the chief executives and movie stars who get sweaty palms every time they undertake a new task. The answer, according to Clance and Harvey, is that IP fears can trigger illness and debilitating emotional trauma in sufferers, and cause additional problems for others who depend upon them. Consider, for example, the hyped-up physician who told Clance about his long battle to keep his fears under control. "It was wearing me out pretending to be a doctor," he confided. He eventually realized that his unfounded obsession with imminent failure...
Cobb was to come home successfully 2,245 times in the big leagues, but his father saw none of those achievements. W.H. was shotgunned twice on the evening of Aug. 8, 1905. His wife pulled the trigger. She had mistaken him, she claimed, for an intruder. Three weeks later, amid rumors about his parents' marital squabbles, infidelity and murder, the red-haired 18-year-old fought his way into the Detroit Tigers' lineup. But he saw no reason to rejoice. "I only thought," he recalled, "father won't know...
...days, NASA officials at Mission Control debated whether to attempt repairs. Hughes engineers theorized that the satellite might have failed because a hooklike "trigger" that projected from its side was not fully engaged. NASA officials agreed, but would not permit any of the Discovery team to leave the ship to work on the crippled satellite. The officials decided it was too dangerous for astronauts to perform unrehearsed work between objects as large as the rotating LEASAT and the shuttle, especially since the satellite's rockets were fueled...
...experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...
...Palestinians looting and destroying the settlements, and dancing on the rooftops-as they did when we left southern Lebanon-then it will be near impossible to resume negotiations on a final peace settlement." Worse, if Palestinian radicals fire rockets at the Israeli settlers as they leave, it could trigger a resumption of major combat between the two sides...