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...Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne wants to use the Italian carmaker's technology to sharpen the focus of the Chrysler brands, insiders say. For example, Fiat's technology could allow Chrysler to build a reputation for high performance - not something it's known for today. The new technology could also augment Chrysler's traditional strength in four-wheel-drive, sport utility and truck segments, which are under pressure from rising fuel prices...
...Both autism-spectrum conditions and anorexia share a narrow focus of attention, a resistance to change and excellent attention to detail," says Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, who is not involved in the Maudsley research...
...treating anorexia in teens - and it remains the only therapy that has proved effective in controlled trials. Unlike traditional treatment, which assumes that anorexia is caused by environmental factors and low self-esteem and often involves intense therapy at residential treatment centers, the outpatient Maudsley method does not focus on psychological therapies or on "parent-ectomy" - removing the teen from the home...
...recession is defined by the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the semiofficial arbiter of such matters, as a "significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy." It's certainly better for economic activity to be increasing rather than decreasing, but the focus on whether the economy is in recession or not can miss a lot. "I don't care about what the dating committee says. I'm concerned about longer-term issues," says Yale economist Robert Shiller. "We are in for an extended period of subnormal economic growth." Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive...
...Iranians, says Ken Katzman, a Middle East specialist at the Congressional Research Service. "These symbols of the Iranian reform movement are quite visible, quite vocal and quite well endowed, technologically. But they're not a majority. We keep missing that." Rutgers University professor Hooshang Amirahmadi fears that policymakers will focus more on the election than on the larger struggle of a new class of secular nationalists to break the bonds of theocratic rule. "The movement is moving beyond the framework that the Islamic Republic has set for itself," Amirahmadi says. "It's no longer a struggle between factions...