The Night the Cold War Died

In 1961 the East German government started work on the Berlin Wall.  Not long afterward The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded their first album.  Remember The Chad Mitchell Trio?  The Mitchell Trio?  Maybe this will help.  When namesake-tenor Chad Mitchell left the group, his replacement was another blond tenor, Henry John…

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Where do tsunamis come from, Mommy?

How many times has that question been asked, in various forms, since the Indian Ocean’s belated Christmas present arrived in South Asia? And children aren’t the only ones asking. Most people, even those who are thousands of miles away, are trying to come to grips with the magnitude and impact…

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Reality as Rorschach

As a clinical psychology instructor at the U.S. Army’s Medical Field Service School, in San Antonio, my job was largely involved with teaching a wide variety of forms of psychological testing. The famous Rorschach inkblot test was among them. It is a specific example of a category of test called…

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