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...Drugs like Ambien get you to sleep," says Jacobs, "but they don't get at stress and anxiety, which are often the underlying cause of insomnia." Once you're off the drug, insomnia usually returns with a vengeance. In his placebo control study, a relatively brief course of CBT, lasting about 2 1/2 hours over six weeks, showed no such problem...
...unprecedented crackdown on the new arrivals, who have become a hot political issue for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In the past, immigrants were typically given up to 60 days while the government checked their identities and assessed their status; now, most are flown back to Tripoli after a brief medical check. "It's quite scary," says opposition Senator Tana de Zulueta, who was in Lampedusa last week. "There is no access to even minimal standards of identification." Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu defended the measures, saying: "These are unwelcome decisions, but are nonetheless absolutely necessary to block a real organized assault...
...since we’re still on the education thing, here’s a brief history lesson to make it even clearer...
...problem is the underestimation of audiences. Hollywood may be liberal, but only in the most politically correct sense. It is a reactionary industry, and besides a brief stint in the early ’70s (which was economically motivated), it has never been politically progressive beyond the most agreeable of causes. Some may think that having such an obvious allegory like Lenny in a mainstream children’s film is a step forward. But it’s really nothing new. A real step forward would be directly showing kids that queers aren’t all sex-crazed...
...only did Kagan demonstrate resolve with her outspokenness, but her words were matched with actions. In January, Kagan and 50 other Harvard Law School (HLS) professors filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. For years the Amendment, which was introduced in 1996, had never posed a problem for Harvard, which has a long-standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus...