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...pull them off in crucial situations they come out awkward, embarrassed and futile. The threat of domestic tragedy looms over Snow Angels, suggesting some exotic blend of Peyton Place and Twin Peaks; but its triumph is in portraying folks who, no matter how often they flail and fail, keep reaching out for human connection...
...situation carries with it risk and opportunity. Cynics can argue that the coalition government has pooled all of Kenya's rotten political eggs into one noxious basket, and is therefore bound to fail. On the other hand, Kenya stared into the abyss and was finally pulled back. That presents a chance to refashion the Kenyan state itself and to address the systemic issues - inequality, land rights, corruption and the constitution - that gave rise to the crisis in the first place...
...People who subscribe to this belief fail to understand several fundamental facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants—that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression—that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
...limited.” Tulfano said that those who were less knowledgeable about finance were also those who use high-cost financial products, such as programs that promise to reduce and manage debt. Lusardi said that people are “bombarded” by such products, which often fail to provide the promised help and simply add to one’s costs. Both professors said they are taking immediate steps to improve financial awareness. Tufano has started Doorways to Dreams, a non-for-profit that creates video games to educate youths about financial concepts. Lusardi plans to teach...
...abuses can be seen in the prison memoirs of Armando Valladares and countless other accounts by political prisoners. Valladares writes, “Freedom is so natural, so simple, so intangible and subtle for the millions who were born into it and enjoy it in this world that they fail to appreciate it…the other half of mankind lives without it, desperately yearning for freedom...