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...targets. American environmental consultant Steven Q. Andrews accused the government of switching to monitoring stations in lower pollution areas, changing the makeup of the air pollution index to focus on less prevalent pollutants, and reporting a disproportionately large number of days with pollution measurements just below the "blue sky" cutoff. Du Shaozhong, the deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, denied the allegations. In a recent paper, Andrews reported on similar "blue sky" biases in several other major Chinese cities...
...this because one of the really complicated things for us is there are no rules. The mistake that lots of women make - the only mistake I think you can make really - is to think that because you can, you should. I think there is a cutoff [for things], and only you know when that is. So for instance, you can wear shorts when you're 46, but it's important what length they are. Just because you've got amazing legs, I think it's slightly strange to be wandering around the streets in hot pants...
Since papal conclaves have a cutoff age of 80 and tend to elect Popes from their own number, Benedict is likely to be the last Pontiff who can say, "We remember," and mean it literally. As the church's center of gravity moves southward, he may also be one of the last European Popes, and Jewish relations tend to be low on the radar of African and South American bishops. (One of the latter recently said the Jews own the media.) When Benedict is gone, says Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, "not only may Judaism...
Inserting some wait time between the decision to spend money and the actual spending of it is another strategy. Write out a shopping list in advance, then keep to it, says certified credit counselor Alberta Gibbs. Whenever you want to get anything expensive--maybe $100 is your cutoff--don't do it right away. Give yourself a 24- or 48-hour cooling-off period, says Yale University behavioral economist Dean Karlan. If you still want the shoes--or the video game or the wineglasses--a day or two later, then allow yourself to head to the store...
...continuum model like the one Hyman proposes could help solve this problem by recognizing that people aren't always one thing or another. They're sometimes just a little depressed or a little anxious. To avoid medicalizing normal stress, the DSM-V would set a cutoff point within the spectrum. Of course, determining the right cutoff point for the DSM's 350 illnesses would take an enormous research effort, one that has begun for some disorders like depression but probably hasn't even been thought about for rare problems like sexual sadism...