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...believe the recovery will be very substantial, and therefore it's hard to say the worst is behind us. A lot will depend on how consumers behave. Consumers have been saving and not spending, and the absence of a big surge of this spending is what will prevent the recovery from being robust. In addition, in so many industries there is overcapacity. More firms are selling cars than there is a demand for cars, so somehow that overcapacity will have to be eliminated...
...brains of live patients - a leap forward in a field that long had to rely on postmortem analyses of brain tissue to confirm diagnoses after the fact - and showed that some 21% of patients with physical signs of dementia suffered no outward symptoms of cognitive impairment. (See how to prevent illness...
...active" expressions of emotion, such as "excited," "thrilled" and "delighted" as opposed to passive emotions like "pleased" and "calm." Falling in line with other recent social research in the elderly, the analysis found that language indicating strong social relationships was powerfully associated with longer life. (See how to prevent illness...
...this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official terms - a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write hard-hearted essays opposing funding for the disabled. When these participants were later told they were compassionate, they felt even worse about what they had written. (See how to prevent illness...
...With this guidance, we have strengthened our business processes, internal controls and oversight of all financial transactions in order to safeguard the assets of the organization and prevent similar situations from occurring in the future," they wrote...