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...conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction - a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman - which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone - were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students...
...Obama was among the first to cry foul, instructing Treasury Secretary Geithner to "block these bonuses and make the American taxpayer whole." Afterwards, in a letter to Congress, Geithner stated that "we will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the Treasury from the operations of the company the amount of the retention awards just paid." It appears that AIG's penalty will be that the Treasury will force the insurance company to pay the Treasury back with money the Treasury has already given it. Congressman Barney Frank struck a strident tone when he proposed that the government enforce...
...appeared on the screen. I was asked not only to remember the numbers but also to restate them in proper numerical order. So if I saw 4, then 3, then 1, then 8, I had to say, "One, three, four, eight." Each series of numbers also included a random letter, which I had to state at the end: "One, three, four, eight...
...Obama Administration has offered few details thus far as to how it plans to institute comprehensive health-care coverage. In a letter to Congress March 24, however, the health-insurance industry - including America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association - indicated it would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Such a measure, as the CAP report suggests, could be the first step to saving all Americans money...
...even smaller manifestations of independent thinking are bringing a swift response. In mid-March, the mainland's Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch reported that Zhang Shijun, a former People's Liberation Army solider who wrote an open letter expressing his regret about the crackdown on protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was taken away from his home in the middle of the night by armed policemen. There has been no news since then of Zhang, who had served in one of the military units that put down the protests and contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives...