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...rate of nearly 13% on an annualized basis or that Korea's economic output could drop 20%. In the U.S., the GDP is shrinking at a rate of 6% now, but there is nothing in the economic or employment news that keeps us from believing that America will avoid a double-digit drop in GDP If the U.S. skids at that rate, the other large economies in the world, all of which depend on the American consumer to some great degree, will have the hulls of their exports breached below the water line. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...answers yet as to what effects TV-viewing can have on infants with respect to cognitive outcomes," says Christakis. "But here is what we do know - there is absolutely no benefit to this viewing despite claims that continue to be made by commercial products." (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...mysteries. You can anesthetize patients with painkillers, but that's not a great long-term solution, since patients become habituated (and in some cases addicted) to pain meds. In children, the situation is even more dire, since they may face decades of swallowing drugs. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...along with an extra one or two ACT sessions with their parents present). During the sessions, the therapists emphasized that the kids should go out and do what they truly loved even if they were hurting that day - in other words, that they should accept rather than try to avoid their chronic pain. To shift kids away from focusing only on alleviating their symptoms, therapists discussed how their pain was not caused by a harmful disease or injury and how previous strategies (such as taking painkillers) had not worked. Kids were encouraged instead to notice and accept discomfort...
...single-race colleges like Spelman. She also said that people could be put in groups or separated in ways to create an atmosphere conducive to discussion. “The willingness to have difficult conversations is the key,” Tatum said, “If you avoid things you don’t learn that [they] can be liberating.” —Staff writer Jillian K. Kushner can be reached at kushner@fas.harvard.edu...