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...forms of therapy have maintained that the best way to deal with a problem or trauma is to concentrate on it. Through this 'processing,' the theory goes, you'll eventually gain insight and feel wiser, and hopefully better. Accordingly, most people ... think they're more or less obliged to chew over a breakup or career reversal ... [Yet], directing your attention away from a negative experience ... can be a superior coping strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Improve Your Life by Paying Attention | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...closed within the year. The latest example, though, came this week, when the president announced that he would be fully tackling the issue of immigration reform as early as next month. Critics were quick to point out that the president might be biting off more than he can chew by adding immigration to the long list of problems he has now promised to address—with the economy and health-care reform the obvious two heavyweights. Nevertheless, we believe that immigration reform is a very important issue that deserves attention now, and thus Obama’s announcement comes...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Out of the Shadows | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Since Harvard students are so well trained to question their established modes of thinking, here’s something to chew on. Although we may spend more hours per day studying at Lamont than sleeping, books can’t teach us everything. Reading, writing, and struggling through problem sets help us to think critically, but they’re not enough—students need more than just texts to analyze or numbers to crunch...

Author: By Alexandra L. Perkins | Title: A Broad Education | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madoff Feeder Merkin Charged by Cuomo | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...Upon launching his campaign, President Obama stopped smoking. Quite publicly. Letting the world see him chew gum and fidget with his pencils was an invaluable example. I have now practiced long enough to have seen scores of people, more than a few of whom I've loved, get miserably sick and die from tobacco use. I've pointed to the black spot on their X-ray and watched strong men and women collapse, touched the smoke-grown tumors in the operating room, the path lab, even on those poor experimental bunnies' ears and I'm convinced. You can be dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing Health Care Cheaply, Chapter 1: Butt Out | 4/4/2009 | See Source »

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