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...Henderson, a 50-year-old Detroit native, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1980. A decorated student (he earned high distinction studying business administration), Henderson was also a talented athlete, though he posted an unsightly 5.91 ERA pitching for the Wolverines' baseball team as a senior. (He has since cited his biggest regret as not possessing "a 97-mile-per-hour fastball...
...fruitful unless they become more like the bullies who tormented them as boys. That's because, as past studies have shown, the higher your intelligence, the less sex you tend to have - and, therefore, the fewer kids you will have. The last 20 years have been a golden era for dorks as video games and graphic novels and software engineering have become respectable, even mainstream. But in the end, the brutish football players who tormented them in high school will likely win in the merciless world of genetic favor...
...Such studies are part of a growing trend in counseling and therapy that focuses on behavioral change - a new approach summed up by the Alcoholics Anonymous slogan "Fake it till you make it" - rather than the stern "talk therapy" of the Freudian era. Cognitive behavioral therapy, for instance, teaches patients to alter the physiological feedback cycles of certain conditions by slowing their breathing during panic attacks or cutting the hangdog look during periods of depression. Other popular forms of therapy may draw directly from a facial-feedback loop: laughter therapy, for one, seeks to harness the salubrious effects of engaging...
Although the hedge-fund industry has long relished the light touch of lawmakers and financial regulators, a new era is dawning for largely unregulated financial institutions, and rightly so. The huge systemic risks associated with hedge funds and other unregulated firms in the financial system have a ruinous potential in our economy. Yet these bodies have been allowed to operate with a minimal level of oversight for years. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s call for an expansion of financial regulation and increased transparency faces a long struggle through Congress but will prove a crucial framework for promoting future...
...This destruction and rebirth in the news business is not the tragic passing of a golden era, the frightening end of high-quality journalistic output, or the downright terrifying onset of an epoch of public corruption unchecked by an active press. The talent that enters the industry will be the very same; their desire to build reputation and trust will continue. Their principles and standards of conduct, never perfect and always human, will carry over into the new economy. Even the customers of the news—citizens desirous of being well informed or requiring certain information—will...