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...Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the largest to date showing that a relatively modest intervention goes a long way to prevent episodes of depression in high-risk teens. The authors hope it will provide a model that could be used widely in schools to protect kids from depression. (See pictures of teenagers in America...
...Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny...
Idealistic environmentalists may not like these findings, but they should pay attention to them. Many hotels appeal to guests to reuse their towels with little cards asking them to help protect the planet. But as evolutionary psychologist Vladas Griskevicius of the University of Minnesota helped show in a 2008 Journal of Consumer Research paper (here's a PDF), hotel patrons are much more likely to reuse towels when informed that a majority of hotel guests do so than when they are merely asked to help save the environment...
...markets, and instilling a general lack of investor confidence. “We were well prepared, but we didn’t expect the Lehman failure, and obviously things were terribly difficult in the fall,” Kaplan says, noting that even a diversified portfolio cannot protect investors against simultaneous drops in nearly all asset classes. “The only precaution you could have had for that is not to be invested.”By Oct. 31, the endowment had already dropped by 22 percent. ‘OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE’Since then, Mendillo...
...least, union leaders expect the University to protect “its people” by focusing on non-personnel cuts and leaving layoffs as a last resort. Local administrators are contractually required to engage the union in conversation and negotiation whenever they are considering specific layoffs. Called “consultation when considering,” the agreement gives affected staffers the opportunity to understand the reasons behind the proposed...