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...World War II, Germans trekked west to surrender to Americans rather than to Russians, believing they would be treated humanely. Instead of torturing them, we offered them the Marshall Plan - a shining moment in U.S. history. I hate to see the honor of those Americans squandered in CIA torture chambers. Mike Burch, NASHVILLE...
Used Car, Low Miles Rather than fight the system, many foreigners are fleeing the country. Used-car dealerships have been bombarded by departing foreigners trying to sell their vehicles, but dealers have stopped buying because there's no longer a resale market. "I've got no space; no one has any money; and no one's buying," says one. A government-run auction is doing a brisk business selling vehicles that have either been repossessed or been abandoned by their debt-ridden owners at the airport. Local website classified sections are filled with desperate ads offering entire household furnishings - often...
...officials who remembered the bad days of low oil revenues. That meant that when the oil gushers were turned up again, money was saved and not aggressively spent as elsewhere in the region. The nation's wealth was also placed in very liquid investments, predominantly U.S. government paper assets, rather than real estate. While other regional investment funds were buying into international banks, Saudi Arabia was purchasing U.S. government bonds, or paying down its debt. The country can tap into those liquid assets while its neighbors are struggling to sell their investments in banks, equities and companies - Saudi's debt...
...considered a rarity in the U.S., so uncommon that many pediatricians believed they had never seen a case. Treatment was laughable: the dangerous Freudian inanities of Bruno Bettelheim and his now widely discredited methods, the talk therapy of the psychoanalytic community, whose members wanted to treat the parents rather than the child (the blame-the-parents approach). We moved from New York to Los Angeles in search of a cure for Noah. There, at UCLA, new behavioral programs, the operant-conditioning and discrete-trial therapies that now dominate autism treatment, were being pioneered by psychologists like O. Ivar Lovaas...
...partner's pregnancy - trips to the doctor, childbirth classes, etc. - was the best way to secure his long-term dedication. Lead author Natasha Cabrera of the University of Maryland says, "It is the decision that couples make to strengthen commitment and move in together that is important, rather than marital status...