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...therapy, which replaces months or years on the couch with focused programs to help people change unwanted feelings and reactions by challenging the beliefs that underlie them. In the 1990s, some CBT practitioners began to wonder if the structured, learning-based treatment would also work online. At first the idea was widely seen as "wacky," says Klein. "Some people said, 'How can you establish a therapeutic relationship with someone when you don't even see them...
What the Menil made clear was that light was going to be one of Piano's chief materials. His best buildings are elegant variations on the idea of transparency. His Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, just five adjacent bays with travertine walls, is one of the most gratifying art-exhibition spaces in the world. But not everything Piano touches turns out as nicely. In pre-construction models, his New York Times headquarters looked delicate almost to the point of evanescent--quite a trick for a Manhattan skyscraper. But in the execution, the ceramic rods Piano devised to screen the glass...
Sarah Palin poured the visitor a cup of coffee and listened intently to his 45-minute pitch. "It sounds like a good idea," she told him. "I'll sign it and support...
...Governor Palin has pushed just as hard to make sure that deal is in the best interests of Alaskans," says McCain-Palin spokesman Taylor Griffin. Irwin is confident that the strategy will pay off. "There will be a gas line," he says. "Once the producers get over the idea they're not going to control our gas fields like they did our oil fields, they'll get involved. There are hundreds of billions in profit to be made. The economics are going to drive...
...nearly 3 million years of human history, saving and investment was a dumb idea. We hunted, we gathered, we consumed, and we moved on to greener pastures. Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We've had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don't value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn't long enough to learn the lesson...