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...some people, trying to moderate bad habits is not achievable or takes more effort than abstaining altogether - as the philosopher St. Augustine put it, "Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." Recognizing this by trying and failing can also be a critical step toward behavior change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions: Advice from the Experts | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

...absurd idea, according to Jilani Ali Maalim, head of the Somali community in Bassatine. "Most of the people who leave Somalia are minorities," says Maalim, who has put up more than 20 non-relatives in his house, all of them people who had nowhere else to go. "They belong to weak tribes, and most of them are not well-educated. For that reason, they sometimes wind up in the conflict zones, because they don't know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalis in Yemen: Intertwined Basket Cases | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

...years for the Agency to acknowledge them with a star. "We avoid publicity over our tragedies," says the former operations hand. "The American public doesn't always know when it happens." Early reports had the toll at eight but a memo released on Thursday from CIA Director Leon Panetta put the number at seven. The Agency waited until it had informed the families of the victims before confirming the deaths. "Families have been our Agency's first priority," Panetta said in his memo. "Before sharing this information with anyone else, we wanted to be in contact with each of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA Takes a Big Hit in the Afghan War | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

...taught at Indiana University, predicts that more players will come forward to report boorish behavior by coaches. "College coaches are going to be watched more closely," he says. The risk of long-term health damage from concussions, he adds, will likely spur more players to turn on coaches who put their health at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are College Football Coaches Out of Control? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

...year. The first ball to drop - an illuminated 400-pound iron-and-wood orb - was lowered from a flagpole. Tradition took root and the ball has heralded a new beginning almost every year since - in 1942 and 1943, during World War II, the ball was temporarily put out of commission by a war-time "dimout." Instead crowds gathered in the square and observed a moment of silence before hooting and hollering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History of The New Year's Eve Ball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

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