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...Newer Movements
...contribute an additional $330 million annually to cover its pension-fund deficit - which eats into profits. As a way to stem the flow, some U.K. employers have stopped offering plans that promise retirees a fixed benefit: in the private sector, 30% of such plans have closed to new entrants. (Newer schemes are much less certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That solution is a very slow burn," says Raj Mody...
...Newer techniques like cognitive therapy, by contrast, teach patients to recognize destructive patterns in their lives and develop practical steps for changing bad mental habits...
...exile has set our minds free!" But exile strips émigré authors of their natural place of belonging. Liu, one of the most admired authors in China in the 1980s, has been banned on the mainland for more than 10 years and is gradually being forgotten. Though his newer books have found publishers in China again in the past year, he has lost much of his influence. Apart from the fact that Liu's name may not be mentioned in the Chinese media, today's Chinese readers are more interested in pragmatic issues than in the abstract philosophical questions...
...response to the pleas of consumers and chefs who demand more flavor from their fruit, the Delicious is being slowly replaced by newer varieties of apples--such as the Braeburn, Pink Lady and Cameo--that not only look pretty but also taste good. Says Anna Maenner, executive director of the Wisconsin Apple Growers Association: "Every couple of years, there's a new variety that's coming...