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...melted Chairman Naresh Goyal's heart. "I could not sleep at night," Goyal confessed at a press conference. "I was mentally disturbed when I saw tears in their eyes." Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said he told Goyal that "the ministry would certainly not be very happy with the approach of Jet Airways." Something similar happened in France last month when the French oil company Total announced the closure of two refineries, with the loss of 550 jobs. The move provoked a furious public outcry including denunciations from two government ministers, and the firm quickly backtracked, saying it had been...
...lecturing us about inflating our tires and reading to our kids. We elected a President, not a life coach, and we might not like elected officials' challenging our right to be couch potatoes. Obama's aides seem to favor nudges that preserve free choice over heavy-handed regulation, an approach Thaler and Sunstein, the co-authors of Nudge, call "libertarian paternalism." But it's still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power to put it into action. The idea of public officials, even well-meaning ones, trying to engineer our private behavior to produce change can seem a bit creepy...
...costs vary wildly across the country, with little regard for what works. He'd like to document best practices - from emergency-room to-do lists that dramatically reduce infections to protocols for when pricey tests and surgeries really help - and then have all medical providers adopt them. This approach has helped American anesthesiologists reduce deaths as well as costs...
...prolonged discomfort but not to wallow in it, to focus on our values. That happens to sound a lot like "acceptance and commitment therapy," the latest advance in behavioral psychology. Instead of assisting smokers to ignore cravings and chronic-pain sufferers to think about other things - the old denial approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge negative thoughts and then overcome them by focusing on values. Even a small amount of this approach seems to help smokers quit, dieters lose weight and patients with diabetes or chronic pain stay out of the hospital. University of Nevada, Reno, psychologist Steven Hayes...
...songs by Nirvana, the Pixies, Neil Young, and Interpol, among other rock groups. In “For All I Care,” released in February of this year, The Bad Plus incorporates classical music into their repertoire for the first time. “We wanted to approach [classical music] differently and have it be the sound of The Bad Plus—kind of cerebral, intense, contemporary classical music. It was a new challenge, a new tool. We wanted to see what would happen, and it started to really work,” King says...