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...spending. That process is self-focus. Being sad and focusing one's thoughts inwardly usually go hand in hand. The researchers came up with a way to tease the two apart and found that people who are sad, but not self-focused don't spend as much. To break the link, you might, therefore, intentionally try to avoid self-focusing when you're sad simply by thinking of other people. "You could try to think about others by rehearsing a series of sentences that involve others as the subject," says Cryder. "That makes sense to me as a researcher...
...could tell was asleep inside him”.But what he finds when he arrives in Germany is a waking nightmare, a camp full of people trapped in the war: ex-soldiers attempt to complete digging the actual tunnels they never finished during the war and ex-Nazis break limbs and faces while masquerading as innocent displaced persons. Day cannot help but think, “Everybody is mad here, all permanently mad.”And the plot is far and away the work’s least compelling feature. Certainly, had Kennedy handled her plot with any less...
...than the lackluster gestures rampant throughout. The video’s true success is not the added dimension but the choreography. Borrowing from Bollywood and American dance styles of the ’20s and ’50s, the moves extend beyond the oft-impressive but expected break dancing in Elliott’s videos to a unique style that the average, rhythmically-capable person can imitate. With the “Soulja Boy” rapidly approaching obsolescence, the advent of a new dance that’s actually pleasing to watch as well as perform is innovation...
...That effort tops the agenda at Thursday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, just as it will at a major summit of NATO heads of government in Bucharest in April. Some U.S. officials are billing that meeting as a make-or-break effort for the future not just of the Afghanistan operation but of the Atlantic Alliance...
...Washington, London and Brussels, concerns are growing about deteriorating conditions on the ground in Afghanistan. The usual bickering over the Alliance's perennial problem that some countries do less than their fair share is threatening to break out into a fresh round of transatlantic mud-slinging. "We have made no secret about it that there are certain allies that are in much more dangerous parts of the country, " U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this week. And we believe very strongly there ought to be a sharing of that burden throughout the Alliance." NATO currently has about...