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...people who study risk have advice of a different sort. They recommend seeking out information and not relying on emotion alone. Often, the best information can be found by checking with multiple sources - the kind that don't always agree. Come up with a plan for how you might stay home with your children for a week, if need be. Give your brain something to do. Be careful about relying too much on TV news, a highly emotional medium. The brain can stagnate if it marinates in fear for too long...
...just short of friends. When people say they have 765 friends on Facebook, most of them are consequential strangers. Your hairdresser is probably a consequential stranger. Your lawyer may be. The person who comes in to clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom you see on occasion, people in a yoga class. You don't know them that well. You may not even have had lunch with them or had coffee with...
What is the power of place? We can't talk about relationships without talking about the context in which they occur. If you just think of yourself walking through the bad part of town, you're on guard, your shoulders are up near your ears, your heart might be beating a little bit faster, you're not exactly open to having conversations with strangers. But if you're in a welcoming, safe environment, whether it's a store or a park or the barbershop where you know some people or the tavern on the corner, you're more likely...
...woman walking on the treadmill next to another woman whom she hardly knows, [who] is preparing for her wedding, starts talking about her trepidations about what her in-laws are going to be like at the wedding. She does not say that to her close friends because it might get back to her husband-to-be, but she can say it to this woman at the gym. The old rules of disclosure were, we disclose after we have a certain amount of history and we have a shared trust. Sometimes, given the right circumstances, we may open...
...China. This past year, 417 Chinese students bid for spots in the Class of 2013. “Certainly after 10 years of such increases, one expects a levelling off,” Fitzimmons said of the 14 percent decrease. “And as attractive as American universities might be, China certainly is working a great deal to make its institutions more competitive.” John P. Gobok ’12, who grew up in the Philippines, said that the economic recession has made it less feasible for students in his native country to study in America...