Word: coping
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...from Laguna Niguel, California. "We're not required to be astronauts, like Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man." Actually, it's a two-way street. Virgin Galactic must find out before blast-off how people in their 50s, 60s and 70s - those most able to afford it - can cope with the stress of space travel. "To be commercial viable and safe, we need data on the way people react to g forces and the psychological experience of going into space. We don't know that yet," says Alex Tai, Galactic's chief of operations - and the man who will...
...Babel features the first nude scene of your career. How did you cope with it? The scene is one where Chieko is seeking something fundamental. It's not that she is looking for sex, but that sex is the only means she has to keep the guy, and she can't help doing it. Chieko had no other way of communication, and I felt her despair. I knew from the beginning that there was going to be such a scene, but the nudity was handled so beautifully that I wasn't concerned and tried to be professional...
...ence, and simply learn to cope with the inconvenience? When individuals begin selling their personal mediums of communication for advertising profit, social culture suffers. Entangled in a web of technology and dependencies, sacrificing one’s privacy ceases to be a choice, but is instead a byproduct of modern interaction. Perhaps this evolution is inevitable to some extent, but we should be wary of new and innovative forms of “service”—they could cost us more than we think...
...cope with the nudity...
...woman in what has become the hot seat of higher education, Faust will have to cope with the legacy of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who sparked a faculty firestorm over the place of women in academia when he suggested in 2005 that “intrinsic aptitude” might account for the scarcity of women on elite science faculties...