Word: actes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...call rang out through Washington early on the morning of March 2: the biggest act of civil disobedience against global warming in American history would not, in fact, be snowed...
...Kennedy Jr. and Bill McKibben and registered more than 2,000 youth protesters from around the country for a march on the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant, which supplies steam and cooled water to Congress. They planned to shut down the plant by peacefully blocking the entrances, a textbook act of civil disobedience for which many expected - perhaps eagerly - to be arrested. The message was simple: the burning of coal, which accounts for some 40% of U.S. carbon emissions, "is destroying the planet through global warming," as Kennedy put it. America needs to get off coal, which supplies nearly half...
That's why a study just published in the journal Pain is so encouraging. According to the study, clinicians who used a particular form of behavior therapy called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with a group of 16 chronic-pain patients ages 10 to 18 saw remarkable results: after just 10 weeks of ACT sessions, during which patients were taught strategies for accepting chronic pain so they could pursue important goals, those kids suffered less intensely and functioned significantly better day to day than did a control group of 16 chronic-pain kids who had been treated the way kids...
...Wolpe says progress has allowed the terminally ill to live longer, but it has transformed dying from something that occurs relatively quickly and painlessly to something more drawn out and potentially agonizing. "So," he says, "some people have decided that if we are going to intervene in the natural act of dying and allow people to live even though disease is rampant in their body, we can't make someone's decision to die the one exception to our meddling." And if assisted suicide remains illegal, Satz says it could force more "people to turn to nonphysicians to help them...
...Lounge Act. Heineken has opened its first branded airport bar in Newark International Airport's Terminal C. Designed to mimic the first class airline lounges you've always longed to enter, the Heineken bar comes complete with free Wi-Fi, comfy chairs and private cabana areas. Oh, and there's Heineken for sale as well. Open daily...