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...long since learned ways to talk myself out of it--or find someone to help me do so. Like the 90-day drying-out period that turns out to parallel the brain's recovery cycle, such a strategy is in line with other new theories of addiction. Scientists say extinguishing urges is not a matter of getting the feelings to fade but of helping the addict learn a new form of conditioning, one that allows the brain's cognitive power to shout down the amygdala and other lower regions. "What has to happen for that cue to extinguish...
...none of these is guaranteed, he admitted, and he warned of possible developments that could be a harbinger of failure. A "spectacular attack by al-Qaeda" could spark a wider spiral of violence that would be hard to extinguish, he said. "They have tried it before, and they will try it again." He also fears a significant increase in Iranian support for those fighting U.S. forces. Finally, he noted that the shaky government of Nouri al-Maliki could just implode...
...conflagrations have been witnessed in the same mulch bed outside Winthrop’s E-entryway in the past month. The scene of the (alleged) crime is in a prime location for smokers to take a few drags, says amateur firefighter Alexandra M. Fallows ’08, who extinguished one of the fires. But there was something else fanning the flames. Literally: a hot-air vent is located directly above the would-be fire-pit. Fallows witnessed the small but potentially dangerous fire firsthand during a 1 a.m. snack run, and put it out with the help...
...bank or steal a car; you might even summon a hint of the outlaw frisson that could make such crimes seem appealing. But picture yourself as Cho Seung-Hui, the 23-year-old student responsible for the Virginia Tech bloodbath, walking the halls of the school, selecting lives to extinguish and then ... extinguishing them. It is perhaps a measure of our humanity that we could sooner imagine ourselves as the killed than as the killer, and find it easier to conjure up what it would feel like to plead for our lives than to take someone else...
...college football fan; and while you'd be na?ve to suggest that the Division I game was an honest enterprise when I was growing up, you'd be equally innocent not to worry that in the 21st century, money - especially the salaries being lavished on coaches like Saban - may extinguish the few embers of higher-education integrity still left glowing on the university gridiron. Alabama is so desperate to return to the football powerhouse days of its late demigod coach Paul "Bear" Bryant that it will pay Saban $4 million a year. That's a surreal record for college football...