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Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient. His first panic attack came on suddenly, in 1978, as he sat in a psychology-department meeting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was an assistant professor. The meeting had turned into one of those icy personal and philosophical debates common on campuses, but when Hayes tried to make a point, he couldn't speak. As everyone turned to him, his mouth could only open and close wordlessly, as though it were a broken toy. His heart raced, and he thought he might...
Eventually the attack subsided, but a week later he endured a similar episode in another meeting. Over the next two years, the panic attacks grew more frequent. Overwhelming feelings of anxiety colonized more and more of his life's terrain. By 1980, Hayes could lecture only with great difficulty, and he virtually never rode in an elevator, walked into a movie theater or ate in a restaurant. Because he couldn't teach much, he would often show films in his classes, and his hands would shake so badly that he could barely get the 8-mm film into the projector...
...dark to fend for themselves, while Hamas will continue to flourish from aid coming from Iran and other sympathetic wealthy Arab and Muslim regimes.For now, the prospects of peace continue to be dim. Should we be worried that Hamas is in power? Certainly, but we should not panic. The greater cause for fear in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis is the absence of a concrete and sustainable plan to end the conflict. As for Hamas, who knows, the Likud experience in power shows us that radical transformations in doctrines and ideologies are more than possible in the realm of Middle-East...
...Sharon was incapacitated by a massive stroke. Sharon, ever stubborn, lived on, breathing a little, responding reflexively to pokes and proddings from his physicians--and so there was no state funeral, no national emotional catharsis, no clear transfer of power. But more important, there was no political confusion or panic. Leadership was quietly assumed by Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert. "Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics," Avi Dichter, former director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency, told me. "Our great national leader is crippled--and there is no crisis. Power is passed...
...fund Project BioShield, a program he said would "quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague." That sounded like a good idea, considering the havoc wrought by the anthrax mailings of 2001, which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug companies, offered the promise of a guaranteed and speedy contract--even an opportunity to sell the government novel treatments before they are fully approved by the Food...