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...panacea, and that behavior-based quit programs must play a role. "It's good that they're doing this research, but we need to temper our enthusiasm," says Carl Hart, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, who studies cocaine and other drugs. He notes that a vaccine cannot fight craving itself. "It might be helpful for select people," he says, "but we need to go into this with our eyes open...
...nobly trying to remove some of the pressure from students to produce a memorable personal statement, but in the process, it is losing an essential way to evaluate its applicants. A college application is a reflection of the identity of an applicant, an identity that short lists of achievements cannot begin to encapsulate...
...folks laid off amid a downturn are not only high but very long lasting. Upon getting new jobs, they took, on average, annual pay cuts of 25% to 30% and even 15 to 20 years later were earning around 20% less. Why? What can happen is that workers often cannot find another job in their same industry. If a worker had accumulated skills that were specific to that industry, then can't find a job in that industry, those skills lose their value. So that may knock down workers for a long time because it's difficult to reaccumulate skills...
...decision to build this thing cannot be called corrupt in any regular sense," says Sergei Malkov, a city councilor and one of the three members of the St. Petersburg land-use committee to vote against the plan. (Eleven voted in favor and one abstained.) "Gazprom is not the kind of organization that bribes or corrupts people from the bottom. It pushes through its initiatives from the very top," Malkov tells TIME. (Read "Russia-Europe Gas Spat Ends...
...they would thus do little to protect against the near-term dangers that General Stanley McChrystal has warned of. Perhaps most fundamental, the middle way avoids the quicksand on which the counterinsurgency strategy is built: the absolute need for nation-building. Counterinsurgency strategy requires clearing and holding territory, which cannot be done without transforming a corruption-riddled, anarchic and poverty-stricken state into a functioning market democracy. That goal is totally beyond American interests and capabilities and promises only endless war. Nor does the all-out approach help us in Pakistan, whose leaders continue to nurture long-standing alliances with...