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...level throughout the day. Intriguingly, such blunted cortisol responses are also common among Holocaust survivors, rape victims and soldiers suffering from PTSD. The difference seems to be that people with PTSD are much more sensitive to cortisol at even these low levels than those with burnout. "We used to blame everything on high cortisol," says Rachel Yehuda, a neurochemist and PTSD expert at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "Now we can blame things on low cortisol as well...
...Litvinenko was an agent in the Russian Federal Security Service, the agency that replaced the KGB. After breaking with the agency he was granted asylum in Britain, where he became a fierce Kremlin critic and wrote a book claiming that the FSB had bombed apartment buildings in 1999 to blame the blasts on Chechen separatists and create a pretext for resuming the war in Chechnya...
...that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too fat fingers. "I think there's almost a belligerence--people are frustrated with their manufactured environment," says Ive. "We tend to assume the problem is with us and not with the products we're trying to use." In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole...
...Hasina's accusation has been backed by diplomats such as U.S. ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who said last month that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." But the Awami League too must take some of the blame for the unfolding crisis. Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say that the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands and its early calls to take the fight to the streets - riots in late October set the tone for much that has followed - made confrontation inevitable. "Tactically...
...that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. "I think there's almost a belligerence-people are frustrated with their manufactured environment," says Ive. "We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we're trying to use." In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole...