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...most common mistakes addicts make is focusing on whether they are strong enough to change rather than on specific methods of coping. "It's like trying to ride a bike," says Marlatt. "You make mistakes and learn, and you don't give up if you don't immediately find your balance." If the bicycle is missing a wheel or is otherwise broken, then it requires fixing - simply willing it to work is not going to help you ride...
...what common threads did you discover...
...takes a big bomb to make a point in Pakistan these days. Suicide attacks have become so depressingly common that small incidents can be forgotten within hours. But when a bomber driving a truck packed with 1,300 lb. (600 kg) of high-grade explosives rammed the front gate of Islamabad's Marriott hotel on Sept. 20, the explosion destroyed the hotel, killed at least 60, injured hundreds and sent a powerful reminder to anyone who had not yet got the message: Pakistan is now the central front in the war between the U.S. and its allies and radical Islam...
...Palestinian parliamentary elections just under three years ago, neighboring Arab governments grew even more nervous - and more determined to repress similar groups in their own countries. Never mind that a large reason for Hamas' rise was the dictatorial and corrupt ways of the old Fatah government, characteristics all too common in many Arab capitals...
...position throughout has been that policymakers likely have access to information that is better than the information we have - and that it would be good for them to share that information," he says. "They've been remarkably unforthcoming about the rationale for their interventions." That seems to be a common sentiment. "The one thing they emphasize that we really agree with is they want policymakers to share more data that underlie their decisions," says the Boston Fed's Duygan-Bump. As a new Administration takes office and the process of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fix the economy...