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Back in November, Harvard—minus the services of Chu and freshman forward Sarah Vaillancourt, who were playing in the Four Nation’s Cup—had lost to Yale for the first time since 1984. But memories of that game only added fuel to the Crimson’s offensive surge...
...Just after seven, a semi-trailer truck, minus its trailer, approached from the south at high speed. The driver's face was shrouded in a traditional Arab scarf, or yeshmargh. He flashed his lights and blared his horn for a bus to get out of his way. "He accelerated as he passed me," recalls the bus driver. Just as Aziz was about to cross the street, and the garbage collector was stepping back to his vehicle, the truck reached the earth-filled blast barriers around the barracks and embassy. According to an Iraqi guard at a nearby compound, the driver...
That's no small chunk of change. Buying a home is the largest financial transaction most Americans ever take part in. The nation's housing equity--home values minus mortgage debt--is worth more than $7 trillion and accounts for the largest slice of most individuals' net worth. Yet buying and selling remain "horrendously expensive and full of hidden traps," Sealey notes...
...history, psychology had concerned itself with all that ails the human mind: anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions. The goal of practitioners was to bring patients from a negative, ailing state to a neutral normal, or, as University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman puts it, "from a minus five to a zero." It was Seligman who had summoned the others to Akumal that New Year's Day in 1998--his first day as president of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.)--to share a vision of a new goal for psychology. "I realized that my profession was half-baked. It wasn...
...greatest joy") or more specific data on enjoyment of day-to-day experiences ("What a night! The kids were such a pain!")? The two are very different, and studies show they do not correlate well. Our overall happiness is not merely the sum of our happy moments minus the sum of our angry or sad ones...