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...state of high uncertainty, the brain wants most of all to do something - anything. "The natural urge, when we hurt, is to pull away," says John Forsyth, an associate psychology professor in the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany, SUNY. Unfortunately, doing something - like selling stock or drinking heavily at the office - can make things dramatically worse...
...nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people much closer to home. Work-council president Kiss Tóthné is frank in her appraisal. "On second thought, if I had a gun I might not shoot myself," she says. "I might shoot the management instead." - by John Nadler...
...Students who are U.S. citizens will be able to find alternative sources of funding more easily, such as the federal government’s direct loan program, said University spokesman John D. Longbrake...
...more baby insinuations. We’re better than that.” “C’mon, boss, one last try: I’m getting good with Photoshop after that Iraq stuff. We could maybe throw together a birth certificate that says Bill Ayers fathered John McCain’s black baby with Michelle Obama. How’s that for a silver bullet?” [Looks at Dick, who narrows his eyes vaguely.] “Um, yeah. You got my green light on that one, boy genius. Let me know how it turns...
...graduated from HBS 16 years ago, there was no term called ‘social enterprise,’” Silbert said. “It was called the nonprofit sector. I was considered on the fringe and not a part of mainstream business.”John C. Whitehead, a former co-chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, cited the public school system as an area in which nonprofit work could make a difference, saying the government has failed “miserably.”Whitehead called on the panel’s audience members...