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...these results hold up, treating loneliness should involve more than individual therapy for patients. It requires addressing larger, society-based issues. "People are not going to realize that there is almost a wave of loneliness that is being propagated by people two or three connections removed from them," says Dr. Richard Suzman, director of the division of behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging, which funded the study. "This does suggest that one has got to look at both the network and individual simultaneously when you try to repair what seems to be a cascading, spiraling descent...
...Almost every room has a different way to reserve it,” said Hardwick, who worked with the committee last semester to develop ideas to improve the system...
Mehta says he almost had his own accident involving Woods recently. While Mehta was driving through the parking lot of a local athletic club, Woods suddenly hopped out between two cars with a duffel bag, forcing Mehta to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting Woods. "He [Woods] stops, looks up at me and grins, like, 'Ha, ha, sorry,' " Mehta recalls. Whether or not Woods can eventually laugh off his latest traffic mistake depends on whether Florida investigators decide he really doesn't have anything more to tell them...
...past, there were red lines people believed the regime would never cross, but no red lines really exist anymore," says Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "What is to be gained from confiscating Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Prize or assaulting her husband? It's almost as if Iran is trying to parody a gratuitously cruel, dictatorial regime...
...Iran's human-rights violations have not gone unreported. In the past few years, the rise of muckraking independent news outlets and news websites has emerged to spread the word on official abuses. Iran has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, when Ebadi functioned as almost the sole conduit for news of abuses. In that era, families of abuse victims often went to Ebadi first. She brought prominence to their cases by taking them to trial and speaking to journalists who in turn covered the proceedings. If the world learned about the cases of rape and extrajudicial killings that made...