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...injury and greater capacity to do things like go to school regularly. The authors conclude that drugs, while they can help in the short term, don't stimulate long-term behavior change. By contrast, with ACT, "the target in treatment is to clarify and reduce avoidance behaviors that prevent the patient from living a vital life," the study says. (Read "On the Couch Online: Does Tele-Therapy Work...
...California may be lighting the way ahead for the rest of the failing U.S. economy. If so, one of the prominent features of its decline is that the government could not prevent it. The easy argument against that view is that a state cannot print money to sustain its economy. That is true, but there still is not any proof that printing money at the federal level will buy the country out of a pathological state which is destroying sixty years of the fruits of American capitalism...
Viera had publicly criticized the drug traffickers yet seemed powerless to prevent them from opeating in his country - perhaps partly because of the involvement of some top military officers, according to regional sources. In an interview with TIME in Bissau in 2007, a high-ranking West African military officer who asked not to be named said Guinea-Bissau's government and mlitary allowed drug traffickers to operate "not because of a lack of resources but a lack of political will...
...about 24 airfields built during colonial days. There the traffickers flew small aircraft, dropping hundreds of pounds of cocaine almost weekly direct from Colombia. According to European Union drug reports, the cocaine was then smuggled in small quantities into Europe. The government in Bissau has had little means to prevent the smuggling, and almost no patrol boats with which to watch its coastline...
...trials at the beginning of 2010. Robin Vincent, the tribunal?s registrar, has said that the trials could last five years. In welcoming the launching of the tribunal, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said, ?The Lebanese do not seek vengeance, they only wish to protect their country and prevent the terrorists from persisting in their crime unpunished...