The dominant themes: being cool; resolving conflicts between fitting in and being unique; coping with family members; and taking the first halting steps of the mating ritual.
Ms. Scanlan said the prosecution's portrait of a steely-cool killer conflicted with the strange and anything-but-standard item of clothing that witnesses said Sergeant Bales was wearing when he returned to the base early on the morning of March 11: a cape.
So until conflicts cool down around the world and regimes change in repressive nations, tragedies like those of the past few days and conditions like those documented by VICE News are likely to persist indefinitely, if not worsen.
If Ambassador Burns cannot quickly move the two sides to cool down the conflict, General Powell may have to take on that assignment himself.
"The New York matrimonial bar does not have a national reputation for giving people advice to cool down the conflict for the sake of their children," said Andrew I. Schepard, a professor at the Hofstra University School of Law.
In discussions at universities here, some academics are advocating unilateral steps to test whether Israel could cool off the conflict, suggesting that Israel unconditionally pull back its tanks and troops, or announce a temporary freeze on settlements, or even close one of the less populated settlements in the Gaza Strip.
I also talk about obsessive-compulsive disorder; the experience of subculture; the unimportantizing of the "inner cool kid nation;" conflict; getting through negative weirdness, and triumphing because of it.
Over the 20 years that I've worked with couples in my private marriage and family therapy practice, I have developed a three-step process for helping partners practice mindfulness to cool down from conflict, usually without even using the word "mindfulness" at all.
But in less threatening situations, this new research illustrates how therapists, or even couples themselves, can use mindfulness to cool down a conflict and re-warm up their relationship: When each partner can react with greater equanimity, both partners can recover more easily.
That led to the development of ultra-transparent fibres made of fused silica and from that point on, the days of copper cables were numbered.In this section Living where the sun don't shine Cool heads or heated conflicts?
