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...benefits of changing. For instance, if your goal is to drink less or lose weight, treat yourself to something you want - a new book or DVD, say - each time you successfully resist a tempting dessert or achieve a goal, like a month of abstinence. Success tends to beget greater success. If you do slip back into old patterns, avoid recriminations. "Don't say, 'I can't do it,' " says Marlatt. "People make mistakes. If you keep working at it, you will get better over time. That's what the research shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions: Advice from the Experts | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

...With history books replete with tales of V-shaped recoveries following steep downturns, financial markets have become giddy, hoping that signs of bottoming beget the long-awaited rebound. Nowhere is that more evident than in Asia, an increasingly China-centric region convinced it will lead the world out of its long nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kidding Ourselves About an Asian Recovery | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...TALF may beget Son of TALF to deal with the sins of the father. And that will mean more taxpayer dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubts Raised About Government Plan to Boost Consumer Lending | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...people—Lily, Veona, Jin Mei, Chen Qi, Joanie, and Chachi alike. This is not so in art—particularly in popular art. It’s a common notion, at least here, that music is reactive and progressive: it takes a Benny Goodman to beget a Chuck Berry to beget The Rolling Stones. The cloudbank to honesty that is Jay Chou bothered me, but it pained me even more that the experiences of people who did not find love through a cell phone were not reflected by art in their language. Dashboard Confessional, evidently, does not make...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock and Rebellion in Shanghai | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...does not matter much who is the driver and who the passenger, for these two leaders have been bound together by historical circumstances. The Afrikaner incrementalist and the African radical are locked in a symbiotic relationship in which each needs the other to create a new South Africa. To beget a democratic country, De Klerk and Mandela must bring their respective and historically antagonistic followers to the table of accommodation. The prize seals that partnership. To South Africans it may seem an odd time to award a peace prize to two native sons. The country is in the midst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY GAVE PEACE A CHANCE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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