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...That was one of the major recommendations made," Dr. Patricia Santy, a Michigan psychiatrist and former NASA flight surgeon on the Challenger mission, told TIME. "NASA was not interested and felt that the general flight surgeon would be able to identify problems on the annual physical exam." The agency relies on the doctors and other health professionals to do the annual physical to pick up on any possible psychological problems, NASA spokesman Lynnette Madison said. If they spot a problem, the astronaut would be referred to the Johnson Space Center Behavioral Health and Performance Center...
...Santy, author of the definitive book on this issue, Choosing the Right Stuff: Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts, said astronauts are high-achieving individuals who tend to believe they can cope with any problem and see psychological issues as signs of weakness...
...Jakarta has dragged as residents complain about poor land compensation. And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing rainfall: a former catchment area in Kemang, South Jakarta, now an expat enclave, saw its worst flooding in years last week. "If there is no change in policy, the problem is clearly going to get worse," says Marco Kusumawijaya, an independent city-planning consultant. "The people cannot wait that long...
...viciousness, the RAF was not out to indiscriminately kill large numbers of civilians. But neither were its members the high-minded revolutionaries their admirers wanted them to be. Bettina Röhl, who recently wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Ulrike Meinhof, argues that Germany "has a problem" with the RAF. "Our society needs to stop turning them into stars," she told Time. Instead, she said, it needs to "treat the RAF rationally, as 'normal' criminals." For Röhl, younger Germans' inclination to be more interested in the "historical fact" of the RAF than in its ideology...
...Another problem is staffing. Cities like Chengdu don't have enough managers with global experience. HSBC, a company with a vast history in China, opened a branch in Chengdu in 2005 to service corporate customers. It would like to begin retail-banking operations in the city, but a dearth of local talent is one factor holding it back. "It is not easy to find staff who are familiar with foreign operations but also have a good understanding of the local market and customs," says Henry Han, manager of the Chengdu branch...