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Stark says the convenience and comfort of Web-based counseling are indispensable. The Internet allows her to reach otherwise unreachable people: Many women whose marriages end unexpectedly are so devastated and ashamed of what they view as their own failure that they may never be able to face a therapist in person. Further, an interactive online setting lets therapists disseminate counseling to many people at once. "The Web offers tremendous potential," says David Mohr, a psychologist at Northwestern University. "We know from research that certain procedures in psychotherapy are likely to be effective for most people. The Web allows that...
...essence of cool. Dressed in a casual white button-down and gray wool sweater loosely tied around her waist, Sung slings a CVS bag filled with Kraft Easy Mac on one arm, and brown leather handbag across the other. It is this personal sense of simplicity and comfort that she hopes to bring to her Natalie Portman ’03-inspired creation, which will be the first dress, incidentally, she has ever made for someone other than herself. “I alter all of my clothes, cut things here, pin things there,” Sung says...
...beyond that besides widening your margins of risk?Eliminating leverage. If you don't have leverage, you don't have that problem. We have a faulty risk management system that underestimated probabilities while giving people the illusion of understanding them. It gave people the illusion of comfort. If I give you a number, you're going to take more risk. Regardless of the confidence you have in the number. It's psychological. If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many...
...halls. To bring some historical context into this, college campuses in the 1920s saw the development of a distinct youth culture. No longer under the watchful eyes of parents, adolescents were able to structure their social lives among their peers by joining fraternities. For many students, away from the comfort of home for the first time, this peer society offered the reassurance of one’s identity—reassurance through conformity. The increasing prosperity and consumption of the period made it easier for students to engage in constantly changing fashion fads, and by doing so, one could openly...
...Lamont, I am heartened when I think back to that day. Just as our New England forefathers experienced hardship between the explosion of the Fourth and the glow of Thanksgiving, we too face the autumn doldrums. And while the Founders may have turned to prayer and corn cultivation for comfort, thoughts of buffalo and floral genitalia provide all the nourishment I need...