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Bosom Buddies
Why dad should know the factsabout breastfeeding.
How to survive (practically) anything

An interview with psychiatrists Steven Wolin and Sybil Wolin on the belief that adults aren't prisoners of troubled childhoods.

Is It In the Genes?
Driven to drink: Does alcoholism run in the family?
Invitation to the dance
Reports that due to the accelerating pace of technological progress and the globalization of competition, the business climate is in such constant flux that companies are changing the way they hire people. Having the right knowledge, ability andskills might still get your foot in the door, but only the right fit between personality and company to get the job. Study led by Gerald E. Ledford; Details; Results.
Silent Partners
How parenthood changes relationships.
Disorder of the day
States that in the world of psychiatric conditions the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is getting its 15 minutes of fame. Increasing frequency of disorder over the past decade; Medical literature has more sharply defined OCD, according to 'American Journal of Psychiatry'; Association between the increased number of patients diagnosed with OCD and number of publications about the disease; Symptoms; More.
The pedestal crumbles
States that regardless of stereotypes and induced expectations related to beautiful people, they are not categorically more confident, intelligent, or social, or more confident about their appearance. Judges at the Miss American pageant scored contestants higher than they scored themselves; Study by Alan Feingold; Good looking people have hang-ups like everyone else; Report in the 'Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'; More.
Fear and Loathing at High School Reunions

Offers a look at high school reunions by presenting the thoughts from people of various types and ages. Advertising executive, age 51; Aeronautical engineer, age 65; Law student, age 23; Insurance claims manager, age 40; Computer salesman, age 28; Fashion designer, age 43.

Models 'R' us
Reports that eating-disordered behavior is just as likely to exist in the average woman who's pursuing the cultural ideal of thinness, as it is in the skinnier woman who represents the ideal. Cultural expectations of unrealistic thinness affect woman across the board; Study by Jennifer B. Brenner and Joseph C. Cunningham; Results.
In Praise of Followers
Many leaders start out as good followers.
Cat-in-the-hat politics
Suggests that many Americans, when choosing who to vote for in the presidential election, choose the man whose words least overestimate his literacy. Mary-An Leon and T. Harrell Allen of California State; Analyzing candidates' comments; Eighth-grade level; Bush/Dukakis example.
Harassment: Hidden Victims
Sexual harassment can hurt the entire office.
Why do they stay?
Why women feel stuck in abusive relationships.
Dumb juries
Discusses a study performed by Phoebe Ellsworth, Ph.D on how much jurors understand. Survey; Results; What they show; Plea for reform.
The anatomy of madness
Announces that for the nation's one million schizophrenics, extravagant delusions are as real as the perceptions of you and me. Labyrinthine loops of brain's neuronal networks; How and why the disease occurs; New data from use of brain scanning technique called positron emission tomography (PET); Structural defects in schezophrenic brains; Abnormalities; The subcortical hippocampus; Cingulate gyrus of the cortex; Findings of Maryland researchers; Glucose metabolism; Details.
Daughters of Ambition
Many great womensuffered from depression along with body image disorders.
Mired in misery
How those with a negative self-viewcreate relationships that perpetuate it.
Dear diary
States that ever since teenagers discovered sex, they have hardly been able to think about anything else, and that has had a major effect on the psychic life of girls. Downhill skid for their sense of self-worth; Research by Cornell University social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg; Inner life has been overtaken by the quest for boys' attention and beauty and grooming.
As the world turns
Reports that the role of sex on television has become more prevalent and explicit in the past thirteen years, and that society mirrors the drama of television. Comparisons of sexual behaviors now and in 1979; Television promoting casual sex; Documentation of television's promiscuity by professor Barry S. Sapolsky--sex talk, homosexuality, safe sex; Effects on adolescent minds; More.
Just say no!
Examines the 1992 presidential campaign and its use of manipulative political messages, easily construed as propaganda. Overdose of past electoral propaganda activated voters' gag reflex; Innuendos and factoids; Fighting innuendo and slander with inoculation; Analogies and metaphors; Fear tactics; Classic examples; More.

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