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Minister of Health Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson agrees that Iceland has sustained a blow to its psyche - "especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson, "Icelanders have always seen themselves as an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...
...with desperation, is driving some to fight on. György Gergely, 55, says he has resigned from the factory because he can't wait to see whether it will reopen. Now he's hoping for work at a poultry operation in the city of Sárvár, 48 miles (77 km) away. "I have a family to support," he says. "I need to earn money...
...Computer science professor and former College dean Harry R. Lewis ’68—donning a sixties original orange bow tie—gave his top ten reasons why the sixties were better than today...
...Obama supporter who owns a scrapbooking store in Warrensburg, told me that her husband is in the military; he plans to vote against Obama because McCain is a fellow warrior. In other words, if Obama - a first-term Senator with an exotic name, liberal politics and a thin résumé - doesn't win, it will be for a lot of the same reasons other Democrats have lost, including the fact that Americans have leaned toward Republican Presidents for nearly 60 years...
...Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts. “The impetus for the paper on children was trying to understand the extent that we see race yet ‘don’t,’” Apfelbaum said. “We know that infants as young...