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other bright minds speak with us about SOLUTIONS
their work and offer new perspectives THE MIRACLE ON YORK AVENUE
After high school, I went to
Queens College, the $34-a-semester
commuter schoolmy parents could
on human behavior.
afford. At night, I drove a taxicab to
make some money.
One day, my girlfriend told me
that there was a secret university
in Manhattan that had the worlds
highest concentration of science
Nobel Prize-winners: The Rockefeller
University. That night, I drove by
the university, on York Avenue, to
see whether anyone was hailing a
cab. Three times, I drove around the
block. No luck. But the fourth time, a
man hailed me. I asked if he worked
at Rockefeller. Not only did he work
there, he was a professor there: Neal
Miller, who was trying to prove that
biofeedback worked (this was 1970). I
said, jokingly, Im not letting you out
pick me, pp910: Politics meets perception cONSULTATiON, of this cab until you give me a job.
insights
pp1415: The lessons of profanity expLOrATiONS, pp1819: Fortunately, he laughed and said,
How happily coupled people see attractive singles BUrNiNg Send me a letter of inquiry. After
The Accidental
QUeSTiON, p20: The mystery of adult coloring books OpTicS, my shift ended at midnight, I raced
p21: Loneliness across the lifespan UNcONveNTiONAL home to type the letter and put it in
Career Coach
WiSdOm, p22: Finding your way in life means making a plan the mail.
While not always the case, persis-
tence and assertiveness helped. Even
though I was a lowly cabbie, I was bold
How to find a calling (Hint: with pluck and a penchant
enough to ask an eminent researcher
for action) BY MARTY NEMKO
for a joband I immediately followed
through with a letter.
I
WAS BORN in a Bronx tenement to two uneducated immigrants
straight off the boat from the Holocaust. My father and mother could FAST FAILURES
get only minimum-wage jobs as factory workers. All they spoke was I ended up working at Rockefeller
Polish and very broken English. And I was beaten with Ze Strap almost daily. as a research assistant for six months.
Fortunately, I was born smart. Of course, I deserve no credit for that. My For the first time in my life, however,
mother told me that I was reading, although not understanding, the newspaper when my supervisor tried to teach me
by the time I was 3. I somehow had taught myself to read by watching the 5-inch how to design a computer, I encoun-
DuMont television that my parents had bought used. tered something that was too difficult
COURTESY MARTY NEMKO
Although I rarely practiced the $50 piano my parents acquired, by age 12 I was for me. Embarrassed, I quit.
perhaps the worlds youngest barroom piano player, leading a bunch of drunks in Not having finished my bach-
a Bronx saloon singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. By the time I was 22, I had elors degree yet, I wanted to try to
played over 2,000 union gigs, including with the famed Peter Duchin Orchestra. get some course credit for my work
PERSONALITY
Person of Interest
the hot seAt death penalty? Dukakiss response, in
which he dryly reiterated anticapital pun-
radical shifts in voters appraisals of the
candidates are unlikely.
Can an 11th-hour slip tarnish ishment talking points, was widely panned. The public has gotten quite a long look at
a Candidates image? He had the most bland, bureaucratic Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. People
answer, and it revealed a lot about him, who are paying attention to politics have
During A presiDentiAl debate in 1988, says Michael A. Genovese, a leadership evaluated them thousands of times, so for
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ING NUTS oVeR aN UNaVaIlaBle
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Rachel Bloom turned her struggles with depression,
oN? When Aline Brosh McKenna, the
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series cocreator, made the original
of musical theaterinto one of the most unlikely television
pitch, her idea was that everyone has
successes of recent years. by Lisa a. PhiLLiPs
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r
achel Bloom, the Gold- seems like any womans nightmare, a lot of my life I was very boy crazy
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HEALTH
relationships
Supplemental Science
INTIMACY
health
with meaningand trepidationas the first utterance
of I love you. The fear of nonreciprocation after saying
it is enough to prompt many people to hold back, says
Art Markman, a psychologist at the University of Texas,
Supplemental Science Austin. If one person is feeling an intense emotion and
the other is not, then declaring love can create a moment
of truth for a relationship, where reservations have to be
discussed. And because saying it flags not only an intense
emotion but also ones level of commitment to a relation-
Time for
ship, experts find that the phrase is loaded with different
signifiers, depending on who says it first and when, as well
a Brake
as how one reacts to hearing it.
In heterosexual relationships, its commonly assumed
that the woman is the one who says I love you first. Yet
studies show that its actually men most of the time, and
Magic Words
GABA is a neurotransmitter one reason for that may be that they feel love first. In a
that slows brain activity 2011 study published in The Journal of Social Psychology,
but may speed relief from Marissa Harrison, an associate professor of psychology at
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depression and gure in Theres more to saying I love you than sharing Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, found that men
other mental disorders. a powerful emotion. BY JENNA BIRCH reported feeling and confessing love as early as a few weeks
BY SHIRA POLAN
O
UR BRAINS, like race car
drivers straining for the
starting signal, are gener-
GABA
ally raring to go. Given a trigger, our
GABA
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Sex
like those drivers, wed quickly run
into trouble without a sturdy brake.
Thats the role of GABA, or gamma-
aminobutyric acid: It keeps neurons
from firing after their mission is
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