Readers' letters As a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of clinical teaching, research and therapy experience, and as a former program co-director and director of clinical training of a major university doctoral program in clinical psychology, I was sorely tempted to respond to the glowing, but highly varnished article describing the importance of Albert Ellis (May 26).
SCIENCE BRIEFS Crater raises debate Scientists said they have found evidence of a meteor collision off the coast of Australia that may have caused the largest mass extinction in Earth's history – an event 251 million years ago known as the Great Dying.
Questions answered I recently moved into a condo a few miles from the freeway. It seems like freeway noise is louder in the evening. Is this possible or am I just imagining it?
ENVIRONMENT Mexico's butterfly battlefield SAN LUIS, Mexico – The illegal loggers smeared mud on their faces to hide their identities. Then they smashed a camera they feared would expose their pillaging.
TECHNOLOGY New air system may let pilots plot own routes HAMPTON, Va. – While you're trying to catch some z's on your business flight, air-traffic controllers on the ground are busy directing your craft to a safe landing. But there are only about 15,200 air-traffic controllers guiding about 87,000 flights a day in the United States.
BIOLOGY Researchers try to turn the duds into studs When it comes to choosing a mate, animals – be they butterflies, frogs, elephants or humans – have strong preferences. They gravitate to the one with the glittering scales, the warbling call, that ineffable something.
STARGAZER DENNIS MAMMANA Sun's position in sky not hard to figure Look on any globe, and you're bound to find a mysterious figure-eight pattern. It's called the analemma, and it really isn't all that mysterious.
Diesel chronicles his fall for a Dame Vin Diesel sounds like he's in love, and the object of his affection is . . . Dame Judi Dench. It isn't so much a romantic love, but instead, the kind one has for an idol.
THEATER REVIEW Inventive 'Bed and Sofa' hard to label, easy to enjoy At first blush, patterning a stage play after a silent film might seem a jokey notion, like doing a pop-up book of Shakespeare's sonnets. (Or, per Mel Gibson, shooting a movie in the ancient language of Aramaic.)
GETTING ORGANIZED STEPHANIE DENTON This auto journal will fit like a glove I'd like to give my father something to help him get organized for Father's Day. He loves to work on his car. But he has a really good setup for his tools already. Do you have any ideas?