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...computer counseling has its detractors, particularly when it fails to get at the root of patients' sleep issues. "There is only so far you can go with it," notes Dr. S.K. Mostafavi, who runs the Advanced Sleep Medicine Services chain of sleep clinics in Southern California and has served as a sleep "guru" for the popular weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser. Online therapy can be helpful as an educational tool, says Mostafavi, but he cautions, "You don't have the benefit of talking to a professional and finding out what is causing the insomnia." (Insomnia...
Obama assembled all the major players - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, GM CEO Fritz Henderson, Michigan Representative John Dingell - some of whom are still locked in lawsuits over California's earlier attempts to pass its own stricter fuel-efficiency standards. (Under the Clean Air Act, the state has the right to implement auto-pollution regulations that are tougher than national laws, provided that the Environmental Protection Agency issues a waiver, which was denied under George W. Bush.) For Obama, the simple fact that these habitually warring parties were willing to come together on the new requirements was as important...
...DeCoste-Lopez’s pastor. “People seemed to like it,” she said with a laugh. “At least that’s what they told us.” Lopez, a chemical and physical biology concentrator from San Jose, California, and DeCoste-Lopez, a biology concentrator, met their freshman year when they were both housed in Thayer on the fifth floor. A friendship soon blossomed out of their shared love of playing pranks. But it was not until their sophomore year that the couple began dating. By the following summer?...
...Meanwhile, many union members fear this is only the beginning of the cuts that will be imposed on retirees, who were once promised health-care benefits for life. "This is very, very painful for the union," says Harley Shaiken, a labor expert from the University of California, Berkeley. "It's a huge risk because the VEBA could run out of money if these companies don't do well," he said...
...should Florida seem to be experiencing an especially high number of such cases? Are those women, and for that matter, the hormonally charged boys they target, somehow egged on by the state's more sexually relaxed atmosphere, with its sultry climate and scantily clad beach culture? (California also has a high rate of teacher sexual misconduct.) Or are Floridians simply reporting more cases like Hernandez's? It is a crime in Florida, as in most states, not to report such cases, but perhaps the tabloid publicity of the Lafave case has prodded Sunshine State denizens to be more vigilant...