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...School research is distinct from traditional academic research because it concentrates on solving public policy problems, Allison says. For example, the principal book issued by the Kennedy School's Project on Avoiding Nuclear War, "Hawks, Doves, and Owls," ends with a list of 51 specific "do's and don'ts" for avoiding nuclear...
Challenger, the second of the agency's fourships to fly, was making ts 10th flight, more thanany of the other shuttles. Its destruction leavesa fleet of just three shuttles and a program inconsiderable uncertainty...
Using various psychological and physiological tests, Farley thinks he can identify Type Ts with reasonable accuracy. In maze tests, for example, stimu lus seekers constantly vary their routes, even after finding an exit. In figure tests, where subjects are asked to make a circle around a design they like best, Type Ts tend to choose complex patterns. In studies that Farley ran at schools for juvenile delinquents, he found, as expected, that Type Ts were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine...
...Type Ts, says Farley, are invariably high-energy people, some of whom find excitement in mental exercise. Scientist Crick, he points out, was a successful physicist who switched in mid-career to biology, where he won honors for his work with DNA. Sometimes, Farley believes, the energy goes awry: Belushi, a creative entertainer, sought stimulation in drugs, turning from a T-plus into a T-minus. Says Farley: "I can't predict whether the Type T will become a Dillinger or a Crick, but if you can interest them early and work with them, you can push them toward...
Farley is now talking about setting up special therapy for Type Ts that would combine a search for socially approved outlets with some behavior modification to change people from T-minus tracks to T-plus ones. "This country, in order to survive this century and beyond, needs enormous levels of creativity," says Farley. "The interesting thing is that the destructive forces-crime, drinking and driving--arise from the same group who could be the most creative...