November 27, 2015 Losing Her Virginity, Again Natalie Dylan, the pseudonym for a 22-year-old San Diego woman, is taking steps to auction off her virginity. She's taking bids - reportedly already reaching into millions of dollars - to have sex for the first time at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a brothel in Nevada run by proprietor Dennis Hof. She says she has taken a polygraph and is willing to undergo a medical examination to prove her virginal status.
November 27, 2015 My Body, Myself For millions of Americans, every New Year begins with resolutions about losing weight and getting fit. But with the arrival of 2009 in particular, it seems like we're being deluged with messages about how to shed pounds and sculpt our physiques. It seems like every magazine, newspaper, Internet site and morning show is paying homage to those who have achieved control over their appetites, directed their energies into exercise and emerged healthier, sexier or more powerful.
November 27, 2015 Dr. Keith: Grieving Parents Feel John Travolta, Kelly Preston's Pain John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston are both successful actors. They have the rare ability to slip the bindings of their own life stories and enter dramas not their own, scripted to prompt reflection or bring laughter or tears. But none of their training in how to harness their emotions in service to a role could have been any help to them on Friday when they confronted the harshest of realities_ Their 16-year-old son Jett died after suffering a seizure and apparently hitting his head on the bathtub.
November 27, 2015 The Christmas Killer Monday evening, 500 or so residents of Covina, California gathered at the Royal Oak Intermediate School to discuss the horrific Christmas Eve slayings committed by Bruce Pardo. Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, walked into a family gathering at his ex-in-laws' home, shooting a 9-year-old girl in the face and then killing nine other people. Before escaping and committing suicide himself, he burned the house to the ground.
November 27, 2015 Shocking News About Human Behavior During the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram set out to study how obedient human beings can be to authority. Three months after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, he set up an experiment designed to determine whether ordinary people could be coaxed to inflict suffering on innocent people simply because they were ordered to do so.
November 27, 2015 Inside the Minds of Rod Blagojevich and Bernie Madoff The brazenness of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich allegedly attempting to sell a U.S. Senate seat and securities trader Bernie Madoff allegedly bilking investors (including charities) of about $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme may seem inexplicable. But having evaluated dozens of white-collar criminals and very violent offenders over the past decade (and having testified about them in local, state and federal courts), I've realized many of them share recognizable psychological characteristics with convicted murderer Scott Peterson. Peterson, you will recall, is the Modesto, California man who murdered his wife Laci and his unborn child Conner in the midst of an affair with massage therapist Amber Frey, then helped lead the search for his victims.
November 27, 2015 Pop a Pill to Boost Your Brain Chemistry? Several brain scientists recently wrote in the journal Nature (published online December 7) that it is time that science and society explore and, ultimately, sanction the use of pills to enhance brain function in people with no psychiatric disorder at all. After all, they reason, pills already exist that can improve attention span, memory and alertness in normal individuals. Many students already use illegally obtained Adderall to boost their academic performance, and many adults use Provigil to stay awake and energetic at work. So why not sanction the use of these drugs and, perhaps, many others to help anyone who might want to perform better and feel better?
November 27, 2015 Dr. Keith: High School Ethics - Honesty is Out A startling new study from the Josephson Institute, an ethics think tank in Los Angeles, reveals that 64 percent of today's high school students report having cheated on a test in the past year, while 30 percent have stolen from a store.
November 27, 2015 Dr. Keith: Those Who Watched Internet Suicide Have Problems Too The last moments of Abraham Biggs' nineteen years of life were broadcast live via the Internet on Justin.tv.
November 27, 2015 Dr. Keith: Lessons Learned From Nebraska's Safe Haven Law Sometimes, making a mistake teaches an invaluable lesson. And so it is with the loophole in Nebraska's "safe haven" law, a statute that allows parents to drop off children at hospital emergency rooms if they are unable to care for them. The trouble is, Nebraska lawmakers neglected to define "child." So far, 34 children, some of them as old as 17, have been dropped off, including two teenagers just last Thursday.