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Discusses the symptoms of a subcategory of the dissociative fugue mental disorder common among business travelers. Observations on the rise in anxiety of a person for failing to travel the number of files that will qualify for one of the various levels of elite status that major airlines use as loyalty inducements; Decision to take an exhausting but unnecessary trip; Treatment options for the mental disorder.

Features Robert B. Oxnam and his struggle against psychological sickness called dissociative identity otherwise known as multiple personality disorder, which experience was accumulated into a book "A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder."

OVER the last six months or so, it seems several New Jersey towns have developed symptoms of split personality -- at least when it comes to their real estate markets. Take Montclair, for instance: the median sales price has been declining, as anyone can clearly see from looking at the downward pitch of the line graph updated weekly on many brokers' Web pages by Altos Research. But decline means different things in different places. In the area often called Upper Montclair (ZIP code 07043), the descent to $615,000 from $700,000 was herky-jerky, up and down, between April 1 and the middle of September, according to Altos. But in the rest of town (ZIP code 07042), the median skied nonstop down a steep mountain: $700,000 all the way to $400,000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TULSA, Okla. -- With their guns firing, a mob of white men charged across the train tracks that cut a racial border through this city. A 4-year-old boy named Wess Young fled into the darkness with his mother and sister in search of safety, returning the next day to discover that their once-thriving black community had burned to the ground. Ninety years later, Mr. Young lives not far from where he lost his home that day. He is part of the dwindling ranks of the living who can recollect what may be the deadliest occurrence of racial violence in United States history -- an episode so brutal that this city, in a bout of collective amnesia that extended more than a half-century, simply chose to forget it ever happened. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- A parliamentary committee on Wednesday accused News International of having exhibited ''collective amnesia'' in an inquiry about how its News of the World tabloid hacked into the telephones of members of the royal family, celebrities and other public figures. ''We have repeatedly encountered an unwillingness to provide the detailed information that we sought, claims of ignorance or lack of recall, and deliberate obfuscation,'' the panel, known as the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said in a report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article features writer Diablo Cody. It is said that Cody was a stripper before becoming a writer. Cody's screenplay for the film "Juno" reportedly won her an Oscar. Cody's project, "United States of Tara," is a television show proposed by director Steven Spielberg which revolves around a mother suffering from dissociative identity disorder.

TWO years ago, when the Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (''Juno'') began working on ''United States of Tara,'' Showtime's new series about a woman with dissociative identity disorder (commonly known as multiple personality disorder), she knew she was tiptoeing onto a creative minefield. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on the medical condition known as dissociative fugue or dissociative amnesia caused due to a stressful or traumatic event and result in sudden loss of memory for no direct physical cause. These people forget their true identity for an arbitrary amount of time and is also difficult to diagnose. In one case, a blonde woman was picked by police in Los Angeles who did not remember her identity and was traced by her family when her picture appeared in newspapers.