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...reading and learning.”Self-help books are the new Prozac; the pharmacy is being replaced by the library and the critic by the doctor as the worlds of self-medication and literature collide. And there are side effects, as the self-help mindset has begun to extend past the advice column and into the other media of popular culture outlets.To be fair, self-help books shouldn’t be judged by the standards of literature. They are just vehicles for their messages, existing to tell their audience what is wrong with them...
...State of the Union address, President Bush has asked Congress to extend No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal education law. Congress should do so, but only if it fixes some significant glitches...
...that arena because it gives advertisers more leeway in targeting specific geographic areas. A pizza-shop owner can pinpoint his pitch to local diners who search for pepperoni, for instance. "Geo-targeting is huge," says Neisser. The company is also adding a mobile search tool that will eventually extend Panama's reach to cell phones. The new services should help Yahoo! close the revenue-per-search gap, although the improvement probably won't show up on its balance sheet until midway through...
...pleasantly surprised at the general willingness of smokers to get with the healthier times. But not everyone is happy with the new restrictions. While some grumbled about "American-style" kill-joy obsessions with health at the expense of life's small pleasures, others complain that the ban won't extend to cafes, bars, restaurants, discos and hotels until next January...
...join forces against graft. In 2002, for example, mining companies agreed to a set of ground rules called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (eiti), under which they disclose their payments to government. Alan Boeckmann, chairman and chief executive of the giant U.S. construction company Fluor, is trying to extend such cooperation to other industries. So far he has persuaded some of his rivals, partners and customers to join an anticorruption initiative, which now has more than 100 signatories. "I am seeing change, although clearly it is neither enough nor fast enough," Boeckmann says. "But there is now an ability...