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Anna Beets generally avoided the Charlie Company family meetings, but she went to the last one, because she knew she needed to hear about how the deployment would work. "They started talking about making wills," she says, and her eyes fill. "I wanted to burst out, How can you talk like this? I know I have to stay strong for the kids. We all know we have to do wills. But it just slaps you in the face to hear people talking about it that way." She knows that her husband's job is as dangerous as any other. Beets...
...scouting reports before games and almost never blowing a blocking assignment, according to assistant coach Augie Miceli. (Palmisano went on to play for Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a degree in history.) Off the field, he also showed an early entrepreneurial streak, once earning $1,000 as a fill-in saxophonist when the Temptations were in town...
...brain would signal the adrenal glands, located on top of the kidneys, to release hormones, including adrenaline (its more technical name: epinephrine) and glucocorticoids (see chart), and the nerve cells to release norepinephrine. These powerful chemicals made the senses sharper, the muscles tighter, the heart pound faster, the bloodstream fill with sugars for ready energy. Then, when the danger passed, the response would turn...
...genes aren't everything. Therapists who work with narcissists often uncover childhood abuse or some other trauma leading to low self-esteem or even self-loathing--just the kind of emotional hole that pathological grandiosity would be designed to fill. Borderline-personality disorder affects more women than men, and some research has shown that up to 70% of borderline women were sexually or physically abused at some point in their lives. It's hard to hang that kind of mistreatment on the genes. Poorly handled bipolar disorder or learning disabilities may also evolve into personality disorders. Dr. Larry Siever, professor...
...discs fill a market void. China limits imports of foreign music; in 2001, censors approved only about 700 titles, according to Giouw Jui-Chian, regional director of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Asia. The first-and for years the de facto-source of foreign tunes in China was da-kou. "Before, the only way people knew foreign music was through books," says Ou Ning, a Guangzhou-based pop culturato whose 1999 book on Beijing bands was dedicated to the Saw-Gash Generation. "But with dakou, we could hear...