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Purists may say that in an era of niche hits, we are losing our cultural lingua franca, our national watercooler. In the New York Times, SUNY Buffalo American-studies professor Elayne Rapping wrote that the fracturing of TV has created a "craving for the culture that used to unify us as a nation." But really the watercooler has just moved. Online, fans can bond with thousands of like-minded viewers rather than just a few co-workers. We don't all sit en masse for Must-See TV, but cultural moments - from late-night TV to the news to American...
Haig is an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...value of doing this is it would clarify which banks are and which banks aren't undercapitalized," says Harvard Law professor Lucian Bebchuk, whose September proposal for toxic-asset purchases by competing investors seems to have provided a template for Treasury's plan. "It's reasonable to expect that restarting the market for troubled assets will lead us to discover that some banks are in a healthy position and will make it absolutely clear that some banks are in an unacceptable position...
James Fallon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, is skeptical. "So I take a rutabaga and put it close to my head, and it somehow changes the food and improves the mood of the person who ate it?" he asks...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...