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Borderlines are the patients psychologists fear most. As many as 75% hurt themselves, and approximately 10% commit suicide - an extraordinarily high suicide rate (by comparison, the suicide rate for mood disorders is about 6%). Borderline patients seem to have no internal governor; they are capable of deep love and profound rage almost simultaneously. They are powerfully connected to the people close to them and terrified by the possibility of losing them - yet attack those people so unexpectedly that they often ensure the very abandonment they fear. When they want to hold, they claw instead. Many therapists have no clue...
...doubtful that the obsession with Jobs and his health will end anytime soon, given how well he has positioned the company. Apple's computer division had a record year in fiscal 2008 and sold 9.7 million Macs, enjoying a growth rate twice that of the industry average. And that's actually the least interesting part of Apple's business. With the advent of the iPod and the follow-on success of the iTunes Store, Apple has sold 6 billion songs in six years to some 75 million people...
...changes in the absence of counterarguments. Nor should there be doubt that the substantive policy change was necessary. But surely the minister should have blushed. Did he really believe that a policy change of this magnitude, bitterly divisive in most democratic countries, would have obtained such an unbelievably high rate of approval? It was laudable to promote a public national debate about the change but regrettable that the government succumbed, once again, to a half-century legacy of authoritarianism hidden behind a pretended unanimity...
...certainly in the middle of one. Tax revenues jumped from just 5% of GDP in 1936 to 15% to 20% during and after World War II, creating our modern tax system. At the end of the war, the level of federal taxation averaged around 18% of GDP, a rate that has remained nearly constant ever since...
...list of cuts and shortfalls is almost apocalyptic. According to the UCLA Anderson Forecast, thousands of lost jobs in the public and private sectors will cause California's unemployment rate to leap to 8.5% by the end of 2009 (it was 6.5% in October 2008). If the state runs out of cash by mid-February, as has been predicted, hundreds of state vendors, such as electrical-supply wholesalers, food-service companies and building- and grounds-maintenance firms, will be sent IOUs from the state government. Deductions for each dependent may drop from $309 to $103 on Californians' 2009 income...