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...Covers Keep score--and cash in--as TIME Daily's two gridiron gurus size up the NFL slate...
...snow on the ground and the chilly air blowing through Cambridge heralds the changing of the season. It's winter, hon, and that makes all the difference. Even style gurus like Dr. Know experience a little anxiety when it becomes time to whip out the wool, pull on the parka and flex that fleece. Fear not, Yucky dear, Dr. Know will plow you a path towards sharp winter style...
Some parents bristle at such squishy, New Agey techniques. At its worst, they say, emotional learning verges on therapy sessions for third-graders. "I don't want my children talking about my family's problems in the classroom," a Highland Park father said at a school meeting. But EQ gurus such as Professor Roger Weissberg of the University of Illinois in Chicago say students in the best programs have shown not just "more positive attitudes about ways to get along with people" but also improvements in critical- thinking skills. And in New Haven, teenagers say they're witnessing less violence...
Intellectual contradictions have never stopped the self-help gurus in the past, of course. And so three of them are publishing new books to apply their wisdom to the untidy art of being a mom and a dad. The titles give the game away. These books are franchise extenders--knockoffs from a successful product line. Elaine St. James, author of last year's Simplify Your Life, now tells us to Simplify Your Life with Kids (Andrews McMeel Publishing; $14.95). Stephen Covey, who has lobotomized a generation of business executives with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, offers...
...thing the gurus do know is that the recent market swings, while unnerving, aren't as historic as they first appear. It's just that the past five years have been an unusually placid period, making the recent action striking by contrast. Daily Dow moves of 1% or 2%, such as we've seen lately, had been sparse since 1991. But before that they were routine. The Chicago-based research firm Logical Information Machines calculates that since 1945 the Dow has risen or fallen at least 1% in a day 2,268 times, or an average of 44 times...