Word: rationale
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There is another way. In December, Sir Rod Eddington, former head of British Airways, completed a study on transport for the U.K. He evaluated all kinds of projects--from fancy high-speed trains to simple bike paths--and calculated the return on investment per pound spent. What he found was...
Sources of Addiction Michael Lemonick and Alice Park examined the addictions many of us struggle with every day [July 23]. Society often labels alcoholics and other addicts as moral failures, despite medical evidence to the contrary. The sad truth is that the active addict may experience a physical, psychological or...
At the end of the previous book, their path seemed treacherous yet clear and straight, so it is to Rowling’s credit that she allows her characters to set out confidently on dead-end side-tracks and feel most lost mere feet from their goal. They are intelligent...
“The Kyoto Protocol can’t just be renewed,” Stavins said. “Our intention with this project is to come up with a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic plan, and the current protocol, most of us would maintain, is...
In his famous Friday-night therapy workshops on Manhattan's Upper East Side, influential psychoanalyst Albert Ellis, above, a founder of the now widely practiced cognitive behavioral therapy, shouted obscenities, sang and offered blunt guidance for patients: Forget "god- awful pasts," face fears and change actions. In this way the...