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Fortune
Luck BIBLIOGRAPHY Luck exerts a dramatic influence over people’s lives. It has the power to transform the improbable into the possible; to make the difference between life and death, reward and ruin, happiness and despair. But how do psychologists examine this elusive concept, and what... Read more |
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Blockades
B LOCKADES Frank J. Merli and Robert H. Ferrell Blockade, historically speaking, has been a maritime measure, to restrict entrance to a harbor or its environs. The word has been stretched to include entire countries. Sometimes "blockade"... Read more |
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Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames 1959— Actor Forging his reputation by playing tough and often frightening characters, Ving Rhames has built a career as a stage, film, and television actor that has had few lulls since he landed his first role in the early 1980s. Many of the characters he has played have been... Read more |
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Children
C HILDREN Most people in American society resist associating the words childrenand deathin a single phrase. They do not wish to contemplate the possibility that children may encounter death-related events either in their own lives or in the lives of others. As... Read more |
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Deoxyribonuclease
Deoxyribonuclease Deoxyribonuclease (pronounced "dee-oxy-rybo-noo-clee-ase"), or recombinant human deoxyribonuclease 1 (rhDNase or DNase), is an experimental drug used to treat cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited lung disease. People with CF experience chronic (constant) and increasingly worse... Read more |
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Militarism
M ILITARISM William Kamman Near the turn of the twentieth century, Secretary of War Elihu Root told a Chicago audience: "We are a peaceful, not a military people, but we are made of fighting fiber and whenever fighting is by hard necessity the... Read more |
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Molly Dewson
DEWSON, MARY WILLIAMS 1874-1962 S OCIAL WORKER SUFFRAGIST, DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER Childhood and Education Mary Dewson, known as Molly, grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children. Because of her father's poor health, her mother became the backbone... Read more |
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Happiness
Happiness THE EASTERLIN PARADOX SELECTED APPLICATIONS OF HAPPINESS ECONOMICS POLICY IMPLICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY The economics of happiness is an approach to assessing welfare that combines the techniques typically used by economists with those more commonly used by psychologists. While... Read more |
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Risk assessment
Risk analysis Risk is the chance that something undesirable will happen. Everyone faces personal risks daily; we all have a chance of being struck by a car or by lightning or of catching a cold. None of these are certain to happen today, but they all can and do happen occasionally, some more... Read more |
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