Word: controller
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...never bothered sifting through the thousands of stations that broadcast online. Now a start-up called Sonicbox is making it easy for lazybones like me to tune in to the rest of the world from the comfort of home. Its new iM Remote Tuner is a handheld remote control for Internet radio that not only lets you switch stations from up to 100 ft. away from your PC--even if you're in another room--but also lets you play the music through your home stereo speakers. You can get it online at sonicbox.com for $99, and it went...
Having studied 1,000 squabbling couples (if you can imagine that!), Epstein and colleague Donald Baucom of the University of North Carolina determined that the roots of most discord lie in three key areas: autonomy vs. togetherness; emotional investment; and the issue of control...
...when my husband and I argue over who has to do the dishes, we are really questioning each other's emotional investment in our marriage. Whose turn is it to take out the garbage? Could be that old control bugaboo again. Do we both need to visit the accountant at tax time? Autonomy, pure and simple...
...happily married mother of a four-year-old boy, was stunned last year to learn she was again pregnant. She and her husband--who had relied on the rhythm method and condoms for birth control--had been renovating their home outside Seattle, using a number of caustic chemicals. "I thought about the chemicals I had been exposed to and I thought about our very busy lives," Amy says. "I know what I can handle, and our lives were not settled enough or prepared enough for another child." She decided, with her husband's support, to have an abortion...
Under normal circumstances, Amy would have had to undergo a surgical abortion. But she found a clinic that offered the abortion pill mifepristone on an experimental basis. She thought taking the drug would give her a sense of control. And the regimen seemed simple: first an ultrasound test to make sure she was still in the early weeks of pregnancy, then a dose of mifepristone, which arrests the pregnancy, followed by another drug two days later to expel the mass of embryonic tissue. She was surprised at the pain, however. "It was more than a period," she recalls...