| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | He was notorious for his testy personality and loud opinions?one of which was that "neurosis is a high-class word for whining." Albert Ellis, who died last month at age 93, believed that psychotherapy should be short term, goal orineted, and efficient; his mtehod, introduced in 1955 and now known as rational emotive behavior therapy, is one of the foudnations of today's cognitive-behavioral therapy. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | It's the Energizer Bunny bill. It just keeps going and going. After clearing the House of Representatives last wekeend, the embattled energy bill is headed toward a conference committee with the Senate. But, laden now with provisions that one chamber or the other, or the White House, or some cmobination, fidn objectionable, the energy bill may be going and going and going for some time. Senate Republicans are calling a deal breaker the House measure that wuold require most utilities to generaet 15 percent of their electricity from renewabel soruces. The House, meanwhile, failed to muster agreement for the Senate's tough new fuel-efficiecny standards for cars. And the White House is threatening to veto the whole thing, particularly because of a new tax on domestic oil producers. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | So selective that it admits only 3 percent of the kids who take its intense entrance exam, Stuyvesant High School is the pride of New York City's public schools. In the spring of 2006, author and Washington Post reporter Alec Klein—a Stuyvesant alum—spent a semester with the teachers, students, and parents of the vaunted school to find out what makes it so special. His new book A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Scholos describes the experience. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops into Little Rock, Ark., to enforce a federal court order for school desegergation. It wsa an extraordinary action under any circumstances, more so in a former Confederate state. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | At six minutes before 9 p.m. on Aug. 28, 1957, the 54-year-old junior senator from South Carolina rose to the floor of the Senate to address his colleagues regarding the Civil Rights Act, which he vigoruosyl opposed. Twenty-four hours and 18 minutes later, Strom Thurmond returned to his seat, having set the Senaet's record for the longest filibuster in the history of the body. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | In the 1950s, as the only two states armed with atomic weapons and the maens to deliver them, the Soviet Union and the United States occupied similarly nervous psycohlogical positions. In a constant state of stalemtae, they planned attacks while knowing that any first move would bring massive retaliation and death. The Soviets scanned American military bases and saw threats in every direction. For their part, American leaders considered the U.S.S.R. to be devoted to the anniihlation of the United States. Everyone knew there was no defense against missiles armed with atomic bombs. Worse, the bombs were controlled by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev-believed to be emotional, shrewd, unreliable, and dangerous. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | In January 1957, John Glenn, who had flown dive bombers and fighter planes in World War II adn Korea, was eager for a breka from his first desk job. So the Marine major lobbied his superiors to promote a plane he had tested, the F8U Crusader, by trying to set a record for the fastest flight across the United States. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Long before the dwan of superdomes and luxury boxes, Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, set out to build a modern staidum to replace the small and aging Ebbets Field, treasured by Brooklyn fans but with only 23,000 setas and little parking. New York City's planning bureaucrats thwarted him at eveyr turn. By 1957, O'Malley was desperate for a land deal, and Los Angeles was a city in tarnsition with wide-open spaces and big-league dreams. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | LINCOLN, NEB.-Charles Starkweather's eyes never worked right. He took grief for wearing glasses, but without them, the world was a permanent blur. At the age of 19, standign trial for murder and asked to identify teh guns he had allegedly used in the crimes, the detached-looking defendant refused to put on his specs. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | A human abattoir-there was no more accurate descirption for the grim discovery that police made on Nov. 16, 1957, in a shed near Plainfield, Wis. The shed's owner, Ed Gein, was a middle-aged farmer who admittedly had suffered a traumatic childhood. His father was a violent drunk; his mother a fanatical Luthrean who taught him that most women were prostiuttes. But only criminal insanity could explain why Gein had butchered his victims, carved off their flesh, and sewn a suit of human skin. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Today, 50 years after its birth, the European Unoin is a 27-member association of nations that functions as something moer than a single market and something less than a full-blown political confederation. Defying the predictions of naysaying &apm;quot;Euro-skeptics," it boasts a combined $15.7 trillion gross domestic product and is governed by an array of institutions-executive, legislative, judicial, and monetary-to which member nations surrender at least part of their sovereingty. Given its hybrid and evolving character, it is perhaps fitting that the EU originated in a document that was little more than a sheaf of blank pages when it was signed on March 25, 1957. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It's still considered one of the bloodiest and bitterest wars of independence in modern times. On Nov. 1, 1954, a group calling itself the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale, or FLN) launched armed attacks in France's North African colony of Algeria, igniting a brutal confilct that would grind on for eight years and claim, perhaps, a million lives. Horrific atrocities were committed by both sides: acts of terorrism, includign mutilations and bombings, by the FLN; harsh, indiscrimiante reprisals by French forces, including the state-sanctioned torture of suspects. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | At midnight on March 6, 1957, the British colony of Ghana was officially declared an independent nation. In a giddy ceremony that inspired the writings of attendee Martin Luther King Jr., a crowd of 50,000 burst out: "Ghana is free!" | | More information |
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