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...David Mejia is a 39-year-old former systems engineer in Colorado who was found to have multiple myeloma. He recalls falling into a deep depression during treatments. "I didn't want to talk to anybody," he says. "The phone would ring, but I didn't want to pick it up." Mejia describes the massage therapy he received to relieve tightness in his joints as also a form of treatment for his depression. "It doesn't just make my body feel good -it makes my spirit feel good," he says...
...three shows since, funny has indeed remained funny. While the comedy stays constant, the cause changes from year to year. In 2006, for example, the HCC donated the show’s proceeds to Deep Roots, a third-world scholarship organization. In 2007, HRC gave their earnings to Kiva.org, which supplies micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations...
...traders, the economic downturn may come as a particularly deep shock; because most of them are young, they have never faced unemployment or recession. For their entire professional lives, their abilities have been so in demand that many have been repeatedly headhunted, giving them a sense of invulnerability. Now, Morgan says, "They're living in a world that they didn't think existed." On top of that, traders tend to be single-skilled with limited academic backgrounds, Morgan says, meaning they will need further training in order to find other jobs...
Ultimately, both of those conditions will need satisfying before the electronics industry can go deep green. Companies like Dell - which sources one-fifth of its power from renewable resources and offsets the rest - will go green of their own accord, and customers may reward them for it. Other companies will need encouragement - like the system in place in Japan, where the ambitious levels of efficiency achieved by industry leaders are used to force the bottom of the table to catch up. For his part, Shapiro prefers "the carrot to the stick," pointing out that energy efficiency has been increasing, even...
...military commanders in Afghanistan who have warned that the country is in a "downward spiral." Afghans are disillusioned by the lack of security and the failures of their government; Westerners focus on the resurgence of the Taliban. But the two are inextricably linked. Until basic security and the deep flaws of the government are addressed, the Taliban will continue to chalk up successes. And that's something that neither Afghans nor Westerners can afford...