"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." ~ Helen Keller
Sociopaths are modern-day boogeymen, and the word “sociopath” is casually tossed around to describe the worst, most amoral among us. But they are not boogeymen; they are real people and, according to Patric Gagne, widely misunderstood. Gagne wrote “Sociopath,” her buzzy forthcoming memoir, to try to correct some of those misunderstandings and provide a fuller picture of sociopathy, which is now more frequently referred to as antisocial personality disorder.
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By NATALIE ANGIER
Scientists are studying why we find some creatures unsightly, even if they aren’t threatening.
reel
Pronunciation: /riːl/
reel2 (rēl)
v., reeled, reel·ing, reels. v.intr.
To cause to reel.
unsightly
adj., -li·er, -li·est.
Unpleasant or offensive to look at; unattractive. See synonyms at ugly.
unsightliness un'sight'li·ness n.
unhinged
adjective 【形容詞】1狂気または精神異常により影響を受ける(
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The White House meeting took place four days afterelectors met to make Joe Biden the president-elect. A faction that pushed the former ...
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NPR denies accusations of Secretary of State Pompeo, who accused a reporter of lying and called news media “unhinged.”
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Thailand’s prime minister sometimes resembles a ham actor ad-libbing his way through an audition for a role as an unhinged dictator
“I wandered into Beinecke as a freshman, unhinged by my first set of midterms, looking for a quiet place to regroup. . . . To this day, I’ve never seen anything as compelling.” As the Beinecke closes for a year for renovations, Amy Kaufman Burk ’80 remembers how the library captured the essence of her years at Yale.
Light, truth, and Peter Rabbit
In the spring of 2014, I stood at our college reunion, in the Timothy Dwight courtyard, under a gi
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"It was not the British government that seized India, but a private company, run by an unstable sociopath."
How the world's first 'too big to fail' corporate giant ransacked India.
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders
The long read: For a century, the East India Company conquered,...
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Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash and stock deal valued at $68 billion, the companies said in a statement Monday morning.
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An eleventh-hour effort to salvage a proposed $14 billion rescue plan for the auto industry collapsed late last night as Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on the timing of deep wage cuts for union workers, killing the legislative plan and threatening America's carmakers with bankruptcy.
(By Paul Kane, The Washington Post)
Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash and stock deal valued at $68 billion, the companies said in a statement Monday morning.
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Trending: What is a sociopath? Diagnostically speaking, it is someone who possesses a mixture of the following characteristics: charm, grandiosity, bloodless rationality, impulsivity, an appetite for risk, an erratic sex-life and little capacity for remorse. As it turns out, high-functioning sociopaths are full of handy lifestyle tips http://econ.st/13G25Gb
As it turns out, high-functioning sociopaths are full of handy lifestyle tips http://econ.st/1abvABO
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By ELIZABETH HARTLEY WINTHROP
Reviewed by HELEN SCHULMAN
Two inexplicable tragedies leave a tight-knit family reeling in Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop's third novel.
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Departing
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro stabilized the reeling agency she took over
in 2009, but her exit now comes amid a host of pending regulatory
issues.
The reel 膠卷 revolution
With foreign media barred from the country, the Syrian uprising provides the best example of how the concept of what was formerly called broadcasting has changed and of the transformative power of personal videos.
Britain Reels as Austerity Cuts Begin
By SARAH LYALL
The $130 billion in cuts over the next five years are no longer just election talking points. A Masterpiece of Nature? Yuck!
By NATALIE ANGIER
Scientists are studying why we find some creatures unsightly, even if they aren’t threatening.
reel
Pronunciation: /riːl/
Definition of reel
noun
noun
- 1a cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound:a cotton reel
verb
Phrasal Verbs
Derivatives
reeler
noun
noun
reel2 (rēl)
v., reeled, reel·ing, reels. v.intr.
- To be thrown off balance or fall back: reeled from the sharp blow.
- To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.
- To go round and round in a whirling motion: gulls reeling and diving.
- To feel dizzy: My head reeled with the facts and figures.
To cause to reel.
unsightly
adj., -li·er, -li·est.
Unpleasant or offensive to look at; unattractive. See synonyms at ugly.
unsightliness un'sight'li·ness n.
- reel2
[動](自)
3 （目まい・酔いなどのため）ふらふらする, よろよろする, 〈（周囲の）物が〉ぐるぐる回るような感じがする, めまいがする.
━━(他)…をふらつかせる, よろめかせる, …に目まいを起こさせる.
━━[名]よろめき, ふらつき, 目まい；ちどり足；旋回.unhinged
adjective MAINLY HUMOROUS
mentally ill:mentally unbalanced; deranged:
I sometimes think that your mother is a little unhinged.
adjective 【形容詞】1狂気または精神異常により影響を受ける(
the eleventh hour
the last moment or almost too late:
We only received the official signatures at the eleventh hour.
sociopath
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊsɪə(ʊ)paθ, ˈsəʊʃɪə(ʊ)-/
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Unsightly nose or ear hair preoccupied 38 percent of respondents, being overweight bothered 37 percent and 30 percent were worried about yellowing teeth.
38%的問卷回覆者煩惱鼻子或耳朵裡難看的毛髮，體重過重困擾37%的人，30%的人擔心黃板牙。
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