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...extension of themselves - starts to undo that deflation. "People want to value themselves, and this is one way to do it," says Cynthia Cryder, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the study's authors. That same emotional hunger may help to explain other costly behaviors, according to the authors, like aggressively playing the stock market or prowling for a new romance. The takeaway, especially for anyone on a budget: "If you're sad, maybe you should seek out something other than shopping," says Cryder. "A new book to read, a new friendship. Something that's novel...
...Those differences may help explain why Secretary Gates' letter, intended for official eyes only, was leaked to newspapers in Germany and widely characterized as another typical example of U.S. bullying. Describing the letter, which has not been made public, in harsh terms may have been an attempt by reluctant German officials to sabotage the appeal before it got off the ground, analysts say. With the Bush Administration as unpopular as ever, and public opinion set strongly against the idea (some 80% of Germans say they do not want to see their soldiers in combat) opposing even reasonable requests from Washington...
...loyalists is that Obama lacks their, well, loyalty. Running her campaign are a host of aides who have worked for the Clintons before, been fired or been kicked aside and yet keep coming back, decade after decade, to help. That's how the Clintons define loyalty. That pattern may explain why there are those in Clintonland who think Obama has wronged her over the course of the campaign simply because he took...
...Meanwhile, I’ve had a lot of difficulty adapting to my new identity. This situation has raised many questions—for example, if I only use Lamp in the morning, but its effects last all day, how long am I a cyborg? How do I explain my new situation to my friends and family? What does it mean about the relationship between humans and our helpful robots that I felt the need to name Lamp...
...We’re not sure, to be perfectly honest,” said Timothy J. Colton, director of the undergraduate studies for Government, in trying to explain the student flight from the department...