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Lying seemed easier than telling the truth. "His father wanted it to be a secret," says Ed's aunt Virginia Conrad, who eventually told Ed practically everything he knows about his mother. "There was a lot of embarrassment about it." For a while, Ed blamed himself for his mother's condition--he wondered if his birth had made her snap--but mostly he tried to banish her from his mind and go on with his life. He joined the Air Force and married his wife Velma. They had three children...
...correct answer, most often, is that it's impossible to know--in large part because we're precisely the wrong people to ask. Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, believes that there are fixed barriers to self-knowledge about what goes on deep inside our skulls. Says he: "I think that idle introspection in everyday life can be quite disruptive...
Surgeons in West Virginia have gone on strike to protest the exorbitant cost of malpractice insurance. Good for them. Don't talk to me about the ethics of doctors going on strike. So long as they agree to treat emergency cases, they have as much right to strike as anybody else. The premise of a free market is that people can withhold their labor if they find the conditions under which they work intolerable...
...Pickering, a Lott favorite blocked by Democrats in 2001, Democrats are readying battles against two other Appeals Court nominees opposed by civil rights groups: Jeffrey Sutton, a pro--states' rights attorney, for the 6th Circuit in Ohio, and Terrence Boyle, a Jesse Helms protege, for the 4th Circuit in Virginia...
Surgeons in West Virginia have gone on strike to protest the exorbitant cost of malpractice insurance. Good for them. Don't talk to me about the ethics of doctors going on strike. So long as they agree to treat emergency cases, they have as much right to strike as anybody else. The premise of a free market is that people can withhold their labor if they find the conditions under which they work intolerable...