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...Economic nationalism and state intervention can be good or bad, smart or dumb, and in the coming years we need to be pragmatic and distinguish. Globalization proponents—especially those who support the phenomenon on the condition that it’s better managed—have nothing to fear from economic nationalism and state intervention per se. The economic interconnectedness of the world is not disappearing, and we will need to address most problems collectively. But this time we need to be more careful not to put all of our eggs in one basket. Many forms of economic...
...example.) Rather, if you take something like generalized anxiety disorder (300.02), there may be a variety of causes that set it off: genes that cause excessive activity in the fear-producing part of the brain called the amygdala, a stressful job that stimulates that activity, engaging in dumb behavior like having an affair that exacerbates your anxiety, then randomly getting into an anxiety-heightening situation like a car accident. The DSM has to try to account for all of that complexity - causes, effects, unintended consequences - and still be definitive...
...message or e-mail. One school principal suspects that a random ransacking of the phones in his school would find indecent pictures on half to two-thirds of them. Three out of four teens say posting suggestive stuff "can have serious negative consequences," which means they know it's dumb--and they do it anyway...
...about parking. So all I could do was get Mrs. Lewis wound up on her parsonage luncheon (“The Reverend couldn’t help me prepare, though I’m sure lost souls take precedence over peppered pork!”). But I knew her dumb pity was creeping up. She would mention Trent, and what would happen? Would I pretend to be all torn up? Or would I absorb the shot with a smile and say excuse me I need to get out of this humidity it just trashes my hair. But if I dashed...
...account. ViddyHo.com has been linked to Hoan Ton-That of San Francisco through online registration information for the site. TinyURL.com allows users to give a long Web site link a short alias, which can help hide the link’s true destination. “I feel really dumb for doing it,” said Sarah H. Arshad ’09, who entered her user name and password only to see a random, nonsensical video appear on her screen. “I mean, it’s funny because I instinctively felt I shouldn?...