Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Learn new coping skills. Stress is the No. 1 reason that ex-smokers relapse. Stress is inevitable. But you can blunt its effects by meditating, exercising or rehearsing ahead of time your ideal response to an anxious situation...
...stated that a strong reason for not prosecuting Citibank for money laundering is that "no one wants to see a major American institution lose its banking license." So now we have huge banks like Citibank that are not only too big to fail but also too big to prosecute. If the facts warrant it, a bank should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and if the result is the loss of its license, so be it. Citibank should have considered the consequences from the beginning. CHAD JONES Studio City, Calif...
Warning: cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your...marriage? Well, yes. New research finds smokers are 53% more likely to divorce than nonsmokers. Granted the filthy habit is a turnoff, but the real reason behind the breakups may be that smokers are more likely to suffer from problems like depression and anxiety--which can shake up any marriage...
...biotech age will also give us more reason to guard our personal privacy. Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, got it wrong: rather than centralizing power in the hands of the state, DNA technology has empowered individuals and families. But the state will have an important role, making sure that no one, including insurance companies, can look at our genetic data without our permission or use it to discriminate against...
...that reason, it's probably just as well that both efforts, public and private, are proceeding in parallel. "The public sector is learning how to produce very high-quality data," says Maynard Olson, director of the University of Washington Genome Center, which is part of the federal project. "You'll never see private companies doing that." If private companies focus first on the most intriguing genes, while government-sponsored scientists sequence the rest, everybody will profit...