Single-day passes to the inaugural Panorama Festival in New York City are now on sale. General admission for just one of the three days of the festival start at $99, and VIP passes start at $230. Weekend passes for Panorama, which runs from July 22nd to the 24th at Randall's Island Park, are also still available.
Dr. Joseph Wolpe, a South African-born psychiatrist who was a pioneer in behavior therapy, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. The cause was lung cancer, said his wife, Eva.
Dr. Roger Poppen, a psychologist at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and the author of ''Joseph Wolpe'' (Sage, 1995), a biography of the doctor, said: ''He was a major force in steering psychotherapy in the direction of empirical science.