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...that suffering from this condition is inevitable or without consequence. It took me years to realize that even if something wasn’t fatal, it could still be a far cry from innocuous. The real cost of disordered eating isn’t the fact that it can progress into a full-fledged eating disorder but the immense mental space and psychic energy wasted on obsessing about food. We’re anal about enough things in life. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one less thing to be neurotic about?On a national level, there?...
...direction for Vetiver’s music. The band has always had the quality of a hushed guitar-strumming circle in a forest clearing, but after three albums and five years, Vetiver’s “Tight Knit” makes a conscious effort to progress beyond the delicate, relaxed sing-alongs of their freak-folk origins for a more exuberant tone and perky production. Since Vetiver’s first appearance on the national stage in 2004—when their song “Angel’s Share” kicked...
...middle of the dot-com bubble but before Monica Lewinsky, middle-class optimism hit a record high - 57% felt they were moving upward - but it has been sliding back down ever since. A 2008 survey found that roughly half of Americans think they've made no progress and 31% consider themselves worse off than they were five years ago. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...Human Services and the Administration's health-care czar after revelations of his failure to pay $128,000 in taxes. At least three experts involved in the talks say the House is so far behind, they will have to run to catch up to the Senate. The Senate's progress is largely due to Kennedy's "incredible ability and strength," says Billy Tauzin, CEO and president of PhRMA, and a former Congressman from Louisiana. "He's anxious to make this a great legacy." (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...dire as their situation has been, the brokers of the African Banking Corp. and their peers are hoping better times are just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply...