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Many sufferers compulsively change towels and sheets and wash their hands dozens of times a day. One sign of the herpetic, says Psychotherapist Herships, is chapped hands from overwashing. "You never think you're clean enough," he says. Since friction can trigger a recurrence, tight jeans, the uniform of the sexual revolution, are out. Men switch from jockey to boxer shorts, and women often give up wearing panties or pantyhose. One New York woman, a ballet dancer by avocation, could not dance for a year because tights and leotards were too painful...
Some analysts were nervously wondering whether Iran's invasion of Iraq would reduce oil shipments, thus drying up the remains of the petroglut and pushing prices higher. Most experts, though, felt that the war is unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis because the global economic slump continues to hold down energy use. But the energy situation will again become dangerous once world economies start growing. Writes Yergin: "The more likely flash point occurs when accidents interact with a market in which demand is rising, as was discovered in 1973 and 1979. Thus, the world enters the danger zone when economic...
...anywhere you want, and get money to do it, you're sane." The most outspoken advocate for conviction was Nathalia Brown, 30, a power company worker, who said: "If he was responsible enough to come all the way to Washington, check into a hotel and pull the trigger several times, he was sane...
...White House, top aides predicted that the President would not take any action until Silverman issued his report, which is expected within a week or two. "He has no support on the inside," one aide said about Donovan. "But nobody wants to pull the trigger." The White House has troubles of its own. Plans are under way on Capitol Hill to investigate whether the FBI and the White House tried to mislead the Senate about Donovan's fitness for office...
...minds, the yearning antiself rises up and breaks through a wall into actuality. That seems to have happened with John W. Hinckley Jr., the young man who shot Ronald Reagan last year. Since no strong self disciplined his vagrant aches and needs, it was his antiself that pulled the trigger. It was his nonentity. The antiself is a monster sometimes, a cancer, a gnawing hypothesis...